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“There is a greater sense of urgency about where we are, and so you heard me express my concerns” publicly, Ms. Murkowski said. “I’m going to share my concerns with the president and the conference” Wednesday afternoon, she said. “I think they know where I’m coming from.”

Senator Shelley Moore Capito, Republican of West Virginia, who chairs the appropriations subcommittee on Homeland Security, said Tuesday that she could potentially support that approach, as well.

“I mean, I think I could live with that,” Ms. Capito said. She said she expected pressure from federal employees and voters in her state would only mount the longer the impasse drags on. “I’ve expressed more than a few times the frustrations with a government shutdown and how useless it is, so that pressure’s going to build,” she said.

Two other Republicans up for re-election in Democratic states in 2020, Senator Cory Gardner of Colorado and Susan Collins of Maine, have already called for votes to end the shutdown without resolving Mr. Trump’s demand for $5.7 billion for a physical border barrier. And despite repeated lobbying by Vice President Mike Pence and other White House officials, a handful of moderate Republicans in the House already voted with Democrats to reopen the government and will likely vote Wednesday afternoon for a measure to reopen the Treasury Department, Internal Revenue Service and other financial agencies.

But misgivings are now appearing where they would not seem obvious. Senator Pat Roberts, a Kansas Republican who has announced his retirement next year, lamented that government shutdowns “never work” and turn federal workers into “pawns.” Though they had not reached a point of direct intervention yet, he said, “we’re getting pretty close.”