Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin Richard (Dick) Joseph DurbinMcConnell focuses on confirming judicial nominees with COVID-19 talks stalled Senate Republicans signal openness to working with Biden Top GOP senator calls for Biden to release list of possible Supreme Court picks MORE (D-Ill.) on Thursday morning slammed a provision in the pending spending bill that would repeal a piece of the Dodd-Frank financial reform law and expressed doubt that enough Democrats could support the package if that rider remains.

“I just spoke to Nancy Pelosi. The Democrats believe this is an odious provision that should not be included. Many of us feel the same way,” said Durbin, the No. 2 Democrat in the Senate, on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.”

“[Speaker John Boehner John Andrew BoehnerLongtime House parliamentarian to step down Five things we learned from this year's primaries Bad blood between Pelosi, Meadows complicates coronavirus talks MORE (R-Ohio)] can take it out in the bat of any eye, and I hope he will. This provision should not be part of our budget bill,” he added.

Durbin said he “absolutely” agreed with Sen. Elizabeth Warren Elizabeth WarrenGOP set to release controversial Biden report Biden's fiscal program: What is the likely market impact? Warren, Schumer introduce plan for next president to cancel ,000 in student debt MORE’s (D-Mass.) assessment a day earlier when she railed against the swaps provision that would make it easier for banks to directly engage in derivatives trading.

“It is amazing to me that we worked so long on a spending bill to keep government open and now Wall Street banks have parked themselves under the mistletoe and said before anybody can make a move, ‘We’ve got to get special treatment,’ ” Durbin said.

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If the provision is not removed on the House side, Durbin said, “We’ve got a problem.”

Durbin suggested Congress might have to pass a continuing resolution (CR) instead of the “cromnibus” that would fund most of the government through next September.

The Republicans should wait until they take the majority in January before pushing their conservative agenda, Durbin said.

“For goodness sakes, they ought to wait until we pass this budget bill to make other demands,” he said.

The House is slated to hold a vote on the spending measure Thursday — the deadline to fund the government or it will shut down.

Lawmakers are expected to pass a short-term CR lasting only a few days to give the Senate time to consider the legislation and meanwhile keep the government open.

The Senate could vote on the spending bill Friday or over the weekend.

On the House side, the measure is expected to pass, but if only by a slim margin. Republicans need Democratic votes and many Democrats expressed tremendous concern on Wednesday over the Dodd-Frank provision and another that would loosen limits on campaign contributions to national political parties.