WASHINGTON — Dem Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer on Sunday refused to rule out caving to President Trump’s demand for a “clean” stopgap funding bill — no poison pills attached — to avert a partial federal shutdown.

The senior New York senator and most other Democrats in the chamber had rejected a “clean” GOP-backed House bill Friday to keep the government’s lights on. Instead, they backed their own bill that would have averted a partial shutdown while achieving their demands on health care and restricting Trump’s ability to freeze funding.

But Schumer, pressed Sunday about whether he would be on board with the Republicans’ “clean” spending patch if time runs out, to avoid a shutdown, would not deny the possibility.

“Look, we hope it doesn’t come to that,” Schumer told CNN’s “Stat

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