GOP senator jabs Jeffries as 'butt hurt' over Trump-Schumer deal
A Senate Republican suggested Wednesday that House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., had his feelings hurt by not being included in the Trump-Schumer deal to fund the government. The House...
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A Senate Republican suggested Wednesday that House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., had his feelings hurt by not being included in the Trump-Schumer deal to fund the government. The House passed the five-bill funding package, along with a two-week funding extension for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), on Tuesday. Jeffries and most House Democrats, save for 21, voted against it as the partial government shutdown entered its fourth day. Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kan., said it was because Jeffries was "butt hurt" that he was not looped into the deal brokered between Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer , D-N.Y., and President Donald Trump. HOUSE SENDS BILL ENDING GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN TO TRUMP'S DESK AFTER 21 DEMS BREAK WITH JEFFRIES "He's butt hurt that President Trump didn't call him, too," Marshall told Fox News Digital. "But I think that's on Schumer." Marshall described the scene in the Oval Office last week, where top-ranking Senate Republicans met with Trump as the funding deadline neared, and Senate Democrats were digging in deeper into their demands to renegotiate the DHS funding bill. "The president says, ‘Get Schumer on the phone.’ They get Schumer on the phone. They broker a deal," Marshall said. SENATE REPUBLICANS PUSH FOR HOUSE GOP REBELLION AGAINST FUNDING PACKAGE, VOTER ID LEGISLATION "So really, it's on Schumer that he agreed to this deal, really, before bringing Hakeem in," he continued. "And really it comes down to that Hakeem’s feelings are butt hurt, and to him, he's fighting for his political life and really struggling." While the deal does fund 11 out of the 12 agencies under Congress’ purview, DHS remains an open question. Senate Democrats, following the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti during an immigration operation in Minneapolis, demanded that the bipartisan bill to fund the agency be sidelined in order to cram in more restrictions and reforms for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) . Turning to a two-week continuing resolut…