Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer has said Democrats will stand in the way of efforts to pass a Republican-led budget patch that passed the House earlier this week with almost no bipartisan support.

Sen. John Hickenlooper, D-Colo., has voiced concern about Trump's ability to choose who is furloughed in a shutdown, telling CNN’s Manu Raju that “If you shut down the government, the president is the person who decides what is essential. He decides what part of the government stays open, so you are actually giving him even more power.”

Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-New York) said on the Senate floor Wednesday that not enough Democrats support the Republican-led funding measure that passed the House on Tuesday. With days to go until a shutdown deadline,

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer warned that Republicans don't have the votes to pass a measure to keep the government funded through September.

N.Y., joined 'America's Newsroom' to discuss the push for Republicans to negotiate on the spending bill after it passed the House amid concerns of a possible government shutdown.