WASHINGTON (CNN) -- No one knows exactly where President Donald Trump will come down on new gun policy and that uncertainty is causing problems in Washington.
On Wednesday, Trump flummoxed Republicans by expressing openness to a myriad of Democrat-sponsored proposals during an hourlong televised White House meeting with lawmakers.
On Thursday night, he met with National Rifle Association leaders, who tweeted afterward: "POTUS & VPOTUS support the Second Amendment, support strong due process and don't want gun control."
But Trump said the opposite on Wednesday.
"Take the guns first, go through due process second," he had said.
On Friday, two days after Trump's freewheeling meeting on guns with lawmakers at the White House, press secretary Sarah Sanders told reporters that nothing had changed in the President's view on new gun laws.
Which left reporters scratching their heads -- nothing had changed ... from what?
Policy rollout
The White House rollout is also expected to include a plan to fund school grant programs to help protect against shootings and an endorsement of the "Fix NICS" bill, a proposal from Sen. John Cornyn, a Texas Republican, and Sen. Chris Murphy, a Connecticut Democrat, that would improve reporting to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System.
The effort inside the White House is being led by Andrew Bremberg and his team at the Domestic Policy Council, Marc Short and his White House Legislative Affairs team and Sanders and her communications team, a White House official said.
The official added that it's unlikely the White House will back raising the minimum age of purchase for certain firearms from 18 to 21 years old.
"I think the President continues to support, as he said, the 21 years old, but I think there is also probably a lack of support for that right now, so that may be a longer term effort," the official said.
The official said, however, that things aren't certain and the team "hasn't rule it out yet."
But, in light of Trump's meeting, there is uncertainty in where that effort goes.
One source said officials are trying to get the President back to where he was on the issue before the meeting in order to make sure their planned rollout meets his's views.
The subtext to the uncertainty around the White House policy rollout is that Trump was so all over the place on Wednesday that it made it impossible for the White House staff to come up with specific proposals that would comport with what he said during the meeting and what he has previously proposed.
And that is a feeling throughout Washington, where Republicans and Democrats alike have said Trump's wavering on guns -- between tying himself to the powerful National Rifle Association and proposing gun changes that are anathema to most Republicans -- has complicated a debate that is in need of Presidential leadership.
The NRA spent heavily in support of Trump in the 2016 presidential election.
'Surreal'
Republican lawmakers who attended Wednesday's
