WASHINGTON — House Speaker Mike Johnson on Tuesday poked fun at the “family squabble” he sees brewing between New York’s top Democrats: House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer.

Schumer (D-NY) agreed last week to a compromise government funding deal with President Trump. But the iced-out Jeffries (D-NY) hasn’t rallied his House members to back the plan, and the Dem bosses have had differing messaging since on the partial shutdown fight.

“It is hard to square, and it’s not my place to get involved in their family squabble,” Johnson said, trying to conceal a smile, when asked about the disagreement at a Tuesday press conference. 

“I think Hakeem has made very clear, he’s … upset, offended that Chuck Schumer presumed to speak for House Democrats. So you’ll have to figure that out. The Democrats are in a family squabble over there, and it’s not of our doing.”

Jeffries and Schumer are expected to have a meeting later in the day on Tuesday to get on the same page as the House takes up the funding package to end the four-day partial government shutdown.

Last month, Republican and Democratic negotiators had cut a bipartisan deal to pass the remaining six of the 12 appropriations bills needed to fully fund the government for the rest of the fiscal year.

That package cleared the House, but then progressives revolted in the wake of the shooting of Alex Pretti and Senate Democrats killed the deal, demanding changes to federal immigration enforcement policies.

Schumer agreed to pass five of the remaining appropriations bills and do a two-week spending patch to buy time for negotiations on the remaining funding bill for the Department of Homeland Security. Now it has to go through the House.

The top Senate Democrat also listed out demands, such as mandatory body cameras, ID for agents, no masks for agents, stricter warrant rules, ending roving immigration patrols, and better accountability standards for officers.

Jeffries wants a few other concessions, such as a ban on the deportation of American citizens. The mixed messaging has raised questions about whether the two are out of sync.

“Schumer and Jeffries are from the same state,” Johnson chided. “They’re in the same delegation, and they seem to be having a little power struggle between the two of them. So I’m not trying to fuel that, you asked me the question.”

“I don’t know what’s going on, but I can tell you that Republicans are united.”

Back in March of last year, Schumer and Jeffries publicly split during the government shutdown showdown. The Senate leader backed a GOP-led spending patch that Jeffries opposed to avert a shutdown at the time.

President Trump has publicly demanded that all Republicans get on board with the current compromise funding deal to end the government shutdown and backed negotiations with Democrats.

Johnson has already poured cold water on some of Schumer’s demands, such as the barring of immigration officers from wearing masks and adding a new layer of requirements for warrants.

The speaker bluntly told reporters Tuesday that the next two weeks “will be intense” because the “two sides are pretty far apart.” Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) echoed that.

“We’ve got a very short timeframe in which to do this, which I argued against,” Thune told reporters. “But the Democrats insisted on a two-week window, which, again, I don’t understand the rationale for that.”

“Anybody who knows this place knows it’s an impossibility.”

Despite the tough negotiations ahead over DHS, Republicans crowed that Democrats can’t block Trump’s immigration enforcement efforts because the GOP already funded Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.

“What they’ll be shutting down,” the speaker warned, “is FEMA operations, as we’re cleaning up on the winter storms and shutting down TSA, which is obviously necessary to keep the country moving through our airports, Coast Guard operations, I mean, so many important functions in the Department of Homeland Security.”