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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., rejected accusations that he was caving to progressive pressure to force a government shutdown and said a deal could be made to keep the government open if the Republicans were willing to negotiate.

"It’s up to them. If they come into the meeting to seriously negotiate – and the reason we’ve been pushing for months, and we’ve been resolute that we need a meeting, that we need a real negotiation – and you don’t do this by one party putting together a completely partisan bill and saying take it or leave it," Schumer told NBC’s "Meet the Press" host Kristen Welker Sunday.

Democrats and Republicans in Congress are at odds over a proposal to keep the government funded through Nov. 2

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