Members of the U.S. Senate have left Washington, D.C., without confirming President Donald Trump's nominees. 

This is according to a new report from Politico.

President Trump had implored members of the upper chamber to skip their recess and to confirm his nominees. Negotiations, however, fell through, and now lawmakers, including Republican lawmakers, have left D.C.

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Background

It was last week that Trump urged senators to forego their recess and confirm his nominees.

He wrote:

The Senate must stay in Session, taking no recess, until the entire Executive Calendar is CLEAR!!! We have to save our Country from the Lunatic Left. Republicans, for the health and safety of the USA, DO YOUR JOB, and confirm All Nominees. They should NOT BE FORCED TO WAIT. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

Negotiations then took place between Senate leadership.

Just the News reports:

Schumer reportedly asked the White House to unfreeze about $1 billion of foreign aid and National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding in exchange for allowing the confirmation process for additional Trump nominees to move faster.

Suffice it to say that this did not go over well with Trump.

"Go To Hell!"

This is how Trump responded to Schumer's demands.

He wrote:

It is political extortion, by any other name. Tell Schumer, who is under tremendous political pressure from within his own party, the Radical Left Lunatics, to GO TO HELL! Do not accept the offer, go home and explain to your constituents what bad people the Democrats are, and what a great job the Republicans are doing, and have done, for our Country. Have a great RECESS and, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!

The Senate did confirm some nominees before going home, but the vast majority of Trump's nominees remain unconfirmed.

The president has made it clear that he is not blaming Republicans.

In one of his latest social media messages, he wrote:

Very proud of our great Republican Senators for fighting, over the Weekend and far beyond, if necessary, in order to get my great Appointments approved, and on their way to helping us MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! The Radical Left Democrat Senators are doing everything possible to DELAY these wonderful and talented people from being approved. If George Washington or Abraham Lincoln were up for approval, the Dems would delay, as long as possible, then vote them out. The Democrats want our Country to fail, because they have failed. Thank you to Senator John Thune and our Republican Warriors in the Senate. Fight and WIN. I am with you all the way!!! DJT.