Chuck Schumer is going to the White House to talk to Trump about the shutdown

Pablo Martinez Monsivais | AP

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of N.Y. walks to his vehicle following his meeting with President Donald Trump at the White House in Washington, Friday, Jan. 19, 2018.

On Thursday night, the House, with nearly all Republican votes, passed a measure that would fund the government through Feb. 16. It would also reauthorize the popular Children’s Health Insurance Program — an addition meant to get Democrats on board — and delay some Affordable Care Act taxes.

As it stood early Friday afternoon, that bill appeared doomed in the Senate if the chamber took it up later in the day, as expected.

If lawmakers cannot pass a spending plan by the end of Friday, some government agencies will run out of money. Republicans, who hold the White House, House and Senate, have put the burden on Senate Democrats to avert a shutdown.

Schumer has pushed for a shorter-term funding extension of only a few days to give lawmakers more time to strike a deal on bipartisan immigration legislation, which Democrats wanted to see passed this week. McConnell shot down the notion of approving funding for that length of time.

“These incredibly short-term extensions would not even give us enough time to actually write the legislation the Democratic leader is demanding,” McConnell said Friday. “One extremely short term CR (continuing resolution) would lead to another and another.”

An earlier White House briefing in which officials put pressure on Senate Democrats to back the House-passed plan was delayed when Trump, Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney and White House director of legislative affairs Marc Short got on the phone with Schumer to continue negotiations, a White House official told CNBC. Trump invited Schumer during that call.

A spending bill would need 60 votes to pass the Senate, which means 10 or more Democrats would have to support it. Since at least three Republicans and many more Democrats announced they would vote against the House-passed plan, its chance of clearing the Senate looked dim entering Friday.