Government shutdown updates: Senate to convene rare Sunday session, but no votes scheduled yet

Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer said on the Senate floor Saturday that it’s a “terrible mistake” for Republicans to dismiss his proposal to reopen the government with a one-year extension of government funding.

Republicans have called the proposal a “non-starter.”

“I know many Republicans stormed out the gate to dismiss this offer, but that’s a terrible mistake,” Schumer said. “Our offer is not a new policy. This is not negotiating in a shutdown. It is simply agreeing to maintain current funding levels.”

He said Republicans are refusing to even acknowledge the healthcare issues.

“It’s alarming that Republicans even refuse to acknowledge we have an immediate crisis right now that needs fixing,” Schumer said.

Schumer continued to criticize Republicans for the damaging effects of the record-shattering shutdown, blaming Republicans for delays and cancelations at airports and for ongoing issues with SNAP.

He also said the administration displayed “pathological levels of vindictiveness” by taking the case about paying out SNAP benefits to the Supreme Court.

“This morning tens of millions of Americans remain in limbo as this administration continues its crusade against SNAP,” Schumer said. “The Supreme Court has allowed the administration to withhold benefits as the case makes its way through the lower courts. For this administration to go all the way to the Supreme Court just to get out of having to pay SNAP benefits for hungry kids is pathological levels of vindictiveness.”

He said the SNAP issue is “in the administration’s hands.”

“The minute the administration wanted to, it could find a fix for SNAP and ensure that people don’t go hungry,” Schumer said.

Schumer also called the massive airport cancelations “transparently political.”

“What’s happening at America’s airports right now is not an accident — it’s a stunt,” he said.

-ABC News’ Allison Pecorin