Negotiations over government funding are devolving into taunts and partisan posturing as Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) and his Democratic counterpart in the House, Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), assign early blame for an imminent shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security.

Thune told the Washington Examiner on Wednesday morning that Jeffries, who has drawn a series of red lines in funding talks, was not a “good faith” partner and that election-year politics were getting in the way of a deal to keep DHS afloat past next week.