"Trainwreck": Inside furious House Democrats' growing anti-Schumer movement

House Democrats from across the party's ideological spectrum — united in their fury at Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) — are engaged in a campaign to get Senate Democrats to defy their leader.

House lawmakers feel that there is a glimmer of hope, however faint, that they can actually persuade their Senate counterparts to reject a Republican-led government spending bill.

"There is a massive effort going on with people reaching out to their senators ... still happening this morning," one House Democrat told Axios on Friday.

"We just need to pick off four or five" senators, the lawmaker said.

House Democrats are circulating a draft letter to Schumer, a copy of which was obtained by Axios, voicing "strong opposition" to passing the spending measure.

The letter has been signed by more than 50 House Democrats, one lawmaker told Axios. It was first reported by the Washington Post.

It's not just the left pressuring Schumer. "A lot of it is being led by [former Progressive Caucus chair Pramila] Jayapal and AOC, but there are frontliners too trying to whip," one House Democrat told Axios.

There isn't total unanimity. Some House Democrats, for instance, conceded that senators are in a tougher spot given that the upper chamber's 60-vote filibuster threshold gives them a unique ability to actually force a government shutdown.