President Trump taunted Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer on Thursday at a cabinet meeting about his chances against Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in a New York Senate primary as Trump and Congressional leader continue to fail to come to an agreement on government spending:

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Hakeem Jeffries and the congressional Democrats are holding the federal government hostage. A lot of Democrats want to get this thing open. They’re calling us, and they just want to get it open. All we are doing is saying, just play the same thing until we get it straight. They don’t know how to go about it. The problem is, we really don’t know who the hell is leading the Democrats. You have this AOC-I don’t know her at all. I watched her the other day: If they want, they can come to my office. That’s not leadership. The only one to challenge her was Nancy Pelosi. Nancy is not looking too good. I don’t know what’s happened to Nancy. She’s not looking great. But I give her credit-she was the only one to challenge her. AOC said that Republicans could come to her office and negotiate. I didn’t know she was the leadership, but she is taking Hakeem Jeffries’ place. And Schumer is afraid she’s going to run against him. And right now-I don’t know, it could change, life is crazy, right?-but right now, I don’t think he can beat anybody. He would lose any primary. I would say he’ll retire before he loses in a primary. I think Schumer is going to retire, because he can’t beat anybody. His polls are so bad. Meanwhile, the Democratic shutdown is causing pain and suffering for hardworking Americans, including our military, our air traffic controllers, impoverished mothers, people with young children-people that have to live not the greatest of lives. We are doing so many tax cuts. We have top-cut their taxes. The great big beautiful bill-we’ve done it at levels nobody has ever seen. No tax on tips. No tax on Social Security. No tax on overtime. It’s been great for a lot of people. They are doing great. Despite all of the damage that it’s caused, the shutdown has been pretty damaging. It’s early, but it gets a little bit worse as it goes along. They will be making cuts that are permanent, and we are only cutting Democrat programs. I hate to tell you, but we are cutting Democrat programs. We are going to start that. Russell can talk to you about it if he wants to, but we will be cutting some very popular Democrat programs that aren’t popular with Republicans, frankly. That’s the way it works. They wanted to do this, so we’ll give them a little taste of their own medicine. Chuck Schumer proclaimed this morning that every day gets better for them. No-it’s actually getting worse for them. They are having a rebellion in the Democrat Party. If you saw Schumer-I’ve watched this like ten different times over the years-he says, You can’t shut down government, you can’t- and now he is the one who shut it down. It’s a confession that he is acting not to serve the people, but to serve the partisan interests of his party. And I do think he is serving them well. They are way down. They just lost an election in a landslide. I watched Kamala-a sad figure-I watched her the other day saying that the election was very close. No. The election was a landslide. We won the popular vote by millions. We won the Electoral College by, I think, 312 or 315 to 220-something like that. There’s another one we won probably-that’s why when you see the maps, the maps are completely red. The counties-we won 2,505 to 525. Two thousand five hundred to five hundred twenty-five. That’s called one of the greatest, biggest landslides in history. That is one that people are using now.