Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) has reportedly turned down Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s request to address Senate Democrats at their caucus lunch Wednesday. 

While the Israeli prime minister spoke to Senate Republicans at a lunch Wednesday, Schumer denied his request to speak with Senate Democrats over video call, saying, “these conversations shouldn’t happen in a partisan manner,” Punchbowl News reported.

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