White House: Senators who say Trump is unclear are ‘not paying attention’

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Monday said lawmakers who say they don’t know what President Trump wants in a deal to end the government shutdown are “not paying attention.”

Sanders said on ABC’s “Good Morning America” that Trump has clearly articulated his priorities and accused Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) of not being able to keep up during the lengthy policy negotiations.

“I know that sometimes members like Sen. Schumer need a little help and guidance getting through big policy negotiations like that, but the president has laid out what he wants, and if they need help understanding it, we’d be happy to send some people over there to explain it to them,” she said.

“The president has been very clear, George, on exactly what he wants; he wants to make a deal on DACA,” Sanders said to host George Stephanopoulos, referring to the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals immigration program. “So the fact that Democrats are trying to pretend as if that’s something we haven’t already put on the table is just disingenuous and frankly a little bit ridiculous.”

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Several lawmakers have publicly criticized Trump’s negotiation tactics amid the shutdown, which began late Friday night.

On Saturday, a day after meeting with Trump and failing to reach a deal, Schumer said Trump was an unreliable partner and said working with him was “like negotiating with Jell-O.”

Sanders said the president’s priorities include a deal to protect DACA recipients that would include tougher border security with the wall along the Mexican border and end family-based migration and the visa lottery system.

Trump on Monday morning blamed Democrats for the shutdown, accusing them of trying to appease “their far left base.”

Late Sunday night, the White House blasted a bipartisan immigration proposal to end the shutdown, calling it a “giant step in the wrong direction” and too lax on illegal immigration.