"You suck": Emmer unloads on Senate Republicans

House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-Minn.) is saying out loud what House Republicans have been grumbling about for much of the year: They're fed up with the Senate.Why it matters You won't ever hear Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) or Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) talk about their Senate counterparts like this."There are no Democrats. There are no Republicans. They are just senators," Emmer told donors last week at a closed-door fundraiser Axios attended for Rep. Mark Harris (R-N.C.).Emmer said Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) "is doing the job that he thinks he's supposed to do. There's a certain fraternity sorority that is the U.S. Senate."The intrigue: Emmer had a blunt message for senators who repeatedly say they can't pass House GOP priorities: "Don't just keep telling me 'Don't have the votes. Don't have the votes.' You suck."Emmer said he once thought as a House member that he should stay out of the filibuster debate. Now, he thinks his colleagues should "get rid of the darn filibuster."A Senate GOP aide retorted that what would "suck" would be losing the majority and that Republicans should be targeting Democrats instead of attacking their own side.Driving the news: Emmer's comments are the most critical yet from a House GOP leader, but sum up the mood inside the conference.More than a dozen Republicans paralyzed the House floor this summer in an effort to force Senate action on the SAVE America Act, the GOP's signature election bill that's become a major source of tension between the two chambers."We're frustrated with the Senate," Emmer told Axios in an interview after the fundraiser. "We feel like we've been doing everything we were hired to do, and a lot of it goes over to the Senate and it just sits there."House Republicans put their votes "up on the board," Emmer argued, while senators "try to avoid" taking tough votes.The big picture: House GOP leaders often say they've "done their job" when asked about unfinished business. But there's a clear implication in that phrase: The Senate hasn't.Johnson has pointed to the backlog across the Capitol — including when he defended sending the House home early last month by noting that hundreds of House-passed bills were awaiting Senate action.The speaker blames Democrats for that, but his complaints have put the spotlight on Senate GOP leadership.Zoom in: Congressional Republicans spent much of the summer on completely different wavelengths over reconciliation 3.0, which doesn't require any Democratic votes.Johnson pushed the Senate to take up the House's reconciliation framework, declaring in July that the Senate would pass it before leaving for August recess. "That'd be news to me," Thune said at the time about Johnson's floated timeline. The Senate left town without any action on reconciliation 3.0. "They can say all day long, you know, 'It's going to be hard.' Everything's hard. Give me a lecture about how hard things are. That's what I do every day. They've got to figure out a