"With less than two days to go until the appropriations lapse, if we are to avoid a shutdown the House must pass this continuing resolution and President Trump must sign it," Schumer said from the Senate floor on Thursday.

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Schumer argued that if Trump rejects the stopgap measure, it would be "indisputable" that he and Republicans would be blamed for a partial government shutdown over the Christmas holidays.

"Vetoing the last train out of the station, a [continuing resolution], would be a doubling down on his responsibility for a Christmas shutdown and every single American would know it," Schumer said.

House GOP leaders are scrambling to prevent a partial shutdown scheduled to begin on Saturday amid outrage from rank-and-file members that the continuing resolution to keep the government running through Feb. 8 does not include disaster relief or $5 billion in funding for Trump’s proposed border wall.

Senate Republican leadership appeared confident on Wednesday that Trump would ultimately sign a clean stopgap spending bill, and the chamber passed it by a voice vote late Wednesday night.