“Significant and meaningful differences remain” between Democratic and Republican leaders over how to avert a shutdown, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D., N.Y.) told reporters after a closed-door huddle between President Donald Trump and the top congressional leaders on Monday afternoon.

“For the first time, the president heard our objections, and heard why we needed a bipartisan bill. Their bill has not one iota of Democratic input,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y.) told reporters after Monday’s White House meeting between Jeffries, Schumer, Senate Majority Leader John Thune, and Speaker Mike Johnson. “That is never how we’ve done this before.” The New York Democrat added that he and Jeffries “made to the president some proposals” while insisting that “ultimately, he’s the decision-maker.”

The clock is ticking for congressional Democrats to choose their fate ahead of Tuesday’s midnight government funding deadline. Jeffries and Schumer have thus far refused to support Republicans’s House-passed continuing resolution to fund the government through November 21, arguing that Republicans must include legislative language to permanently extend temporary Obamacare subsidies in exchange for their votes. For their part, Republicans have said they’re open to negotiating on Obamacare credits before they expire at the end of the year, but not in a late-September government funding bill.

Also on Monday, Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin (D., Ill.) told reporters that an agreement from Republicans to strike a later deal on Obamacare subsidies would be a “real mark of progress” in the shutdown negotiations. “Whether it’s enough, I can’t say,” he added.

As National Review reported, Republicans have projected confidence that the American people will blame Democrats for a shutdown given the suite of unrelated policy proposals Schumer and Jeffries tucked into their preferred government funding proposal, which would roll back Republican-passed Medicaid reforms and public broadcasting cuts, among other controversial proposals.

The Republican-drafted continuing resolution is considered “clean,” aside from noncontroversial provisions to beef up security funds for lawmakers, executive branch officials, and Supreme Court justices in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s assassination.

“I don’t know where they’re saying this is some huge partisan thing,” Thune said. “This is something we do fairly routinely.”