Watch Replay: Sean Spicer Takes No Questions At Press Briefing

WASHINGTON, DC — Secretary of Homeland Security John Kelly and Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney took over Tuesday's media briefing for White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer, touting what it said were GOP victories in a bi-partisan spending agreement reached Sunday.

Prior to the briefing, President Trump fired off a pair of tweets in which he called for a government shutdown in September and suggested that Senate rules be changed so legislation could be passed with no support from Democrats. (For more information on this and other political stories, subscribe to the White House Patch for daily newsletters and breaking news alerts.)

Kelly said the budget bill included enough money to improve homeland security . "This budget will keep us moving in the right direction," he said. He criticized Democrats, though, for "rejoicing in the fact" that the wall on the Mexican border "will be slower to be built and consequently our southwest border will be under less control than it could be."

Mulvaney said Trump "out-negotiated" Democrats on the spending bill, claiming they were "spiking the football" with false claims about where the money would be going. He argued that the increases in funding for homeland security and the military were huge wins for the Republicans and that overall the president got much of what he wanted in the deal.

But he said the president was very frustrated that he tried to negotiate in the deals and then they "tried to make him look bad."

He also defended the president's threatening of a shutdown, saying that it might be needed to shake things up in Washington.

Watch a live stream of the briefing below.

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