LifeZette Editor-in-Chief Laura Ingraham blasted congressional Republicans for “resisting” President Donald Trump’s agenda “as fiercely in their own way as the Democrats,” during an interview Tuesday evening on Fox News’ “Hannity.”

Ingraham noted that the budget compromise GOP leaders unveiled this week committed funding for Trump’s border wall but continued to fully fund Planned Parenthood and other liberal priorities. Ingraham accused Republicans of “cowering” over the prospect of a government shutdown and snickering at White House agenda priorities.

“If you can’t put points on the board, you can’t be the quarterback.”

“They’re resisting Trump. Some of these Republicans, Sean — and you know who they are — are resisting Trump as fiercely in their own way as the Democrats are,” Ingraham told host Sean Hannity. “They laugh at his priorities behind closed doors.”

Ingraham recommended Trump veto the spending resolution when it arrives at his desk.

“Planned Parenthood alone — to fund that monstrosity of killing — just that, I would have said, ‘Look, you own it. That’s your priority? You want to die on the hill of Planned Parenthood, you go right ahead. But I’m going to veto that,'” Ingraham said.

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Ingraham singled out GOP leaders who made clear to Democrats that they would avoid a government shutdown at all costs.

“I think Mitch McConnell said right off the bat that we are not going to shut down the government,” Ingraham said. “Now what does that tell the Democrats? Go for broke. It’s like unilateral disarmament. We didn’t do that with the Soviets, but we’re going to do that with this monstrosity of a trillion-dollar continuing resolution. It’s just lunacy for the Republicans to hang themselves on this.”

“If [Ryan] cannot quarterback the agenda that won in November — Trump won in November on his agenda — it wasn’t just because of Hillary being a bad candidate,” Ingraham added. “They voted for Donald Trump’s populist agenda. That’s what they voted for … Can you put point on the board or can you not? If you can’t put points on the board, you can’t be the quarterback.”

Ingraham predicted the episode “emboldened” Democrats, who will continue to “try and chip away at Donald Trump’s credibility.”

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“[Trump] campaigned as an unconventional politician. So, if I had been advising him on this, I would have said, ‘Congress, I can’t tell you what to do, but I’ll tell you what I campaigned on. I’m not going to get everything I want, but I’ll tell you some things are non-negotiable,'” Ingraham said. “If his main points and his main priorities are not in that budget, then he should veto it, make them own it, override his veto if they want.”

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Ingraham insisted that if she were Trump, she would have delivered a 30-minute address to explain “how we got into this mess and how responsible stewardship of this economy is required now and that he’s bold enough to do it.”

“I’d pin the blame on the Donkey. Pin the blame on the Donkey, the Democrats, for shutting down the government,” Ingraham said. “That would have been unconventional. That’s why he won — to be an unconventional, anti-corruptocrat politician. And instead, too much of it was farmed out to the Republicans, who always at the end give in to the Democrats because they’re cowering over a government shutdown. It’s ludicrous.”

Hammering Republicans for championing the budget compromise, Ingraham insisted that if the nearly 1,700-page bargain, “filled with nonsense,” had been floated during the Obama years, “we would be off the charts upset about that.”

“So, I’m just as upset if this is what the Republicans holding the House and the Senate come up with at the end of this very long process,” Ingraham said.