House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries speaks during a news conference at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., Oct. 3, 2025. (Graeme Sloan/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
"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.
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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., speaks at a press conference with Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., and Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii., following the passage of government funding bills at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Jan. 30, 2026. (Nathan Posner/Anadolu via Getty Images)
Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., said that negotiations with Senate Democrats would be carried out by Sen. Katie Britt, R-Ala., who chairs the Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee.
He acknowledged, however, that Trump would be the deciding factor.
"Ultimately, that's going to be a conversation between the President of the United States and the Democrats here in the Senate," he said.
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But Schumer insisted that Thune needed to be in on the negotiations.
"If Leader Thune negotiates in good faith, we can get it done," Schumer said. "We expect to present to the Republicans a very serious, detailed proposal very shortly."
Fox News Digital reached out to Schumer and Jeffries for comment.
Alex Miller is a writer for Fox News Digital covering the U.S. Senate.
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