'Furious' Republicans threaten to oust Senate leader after 'absolutely brutal week'

House Republicans are livid with Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) following a particularly “wild week,” Punchbowl News reported on Friday — with one issuing the GOP leader an ultimatum to either meet their demands or “step aside.”

Republicans faced a confluence of challenges and deadlines over the past several days in what Punchbowl described as an “absolutely brutal week as the GOP mulled extending a mass surveillance program and a funding package for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).