Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Saturday threatened to force a vote at 1 a.m. Monday if a spending deal wasn't reached before then.

"I want to assure the American people we'll be right back at this tomorrow," McConnell said during floor remarks.

"I'll say it again to the American people: We'll be right back at this tomorrow and for as long as it takes. We'll keep at this until Democrats end their extraordinary filibuster of government funding and children's health care and allow a bipartisan majority of senators to reopen the federal government for all Americans and to get Congress back on track."

Republicans and Democrats remained bitterly divided over the Dreamers issue Saturday and appeared to be no closer to ending the shutdown, which began just after midnight Friday.

Democrats want a decision to be made on DACA, but Republicans think it shouldn't be tied to a spending deal.

Republicans have labeled it the Schumer Shutdown in reference to Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, who said earlier in the day that Trump rejected two bipartisan deals to get everyone back to work.

"Negotiating with this White House is like negotiating with Jell-O. It's impossible," Schumer said during a press conference.

It's "next to impossible to strike a deal with the president because he can't stick to the terms. I have found this out. Leader McConnell has found this out. (House) Speaker (Paul) Ryan has found this out."

McConnell, though, continued to pin the blame on Schumer and said the New York Democrat needed to put his policital priorities aside.

"The Democratic leader took the extraordinary step of filibustering this bipartisan bill and initiating his own government shutdown," said McConnell.

"Why? Well, because, he explains, the president would not give him everything he wants on the issue of illegal immigration in one afternoon in the Oval Office. That's it. That's it."