President Trump slammed a bipartisan deal that would legislate protections for young illegal immigrants as "horrible" and "very, very weak" during an interview with Reuters on Wednesday.

“It’s the opposite of what I campaigned for,” Trump said of the deal, which a small group of Senate lawmakers presented to him last week at the White House.

Trump has stressed that any bill extending protections for so-called Dreamers, or immigrants who were brought to the U.S. illegally as children, to include strong border security measures and the elimination of the visa lottery system and extended family migration policies.

But the bipartisan proposal presented to Trump did not include enough funding for the border wall and made too few changes to policies that enable chain migration. White House officials are continuing to work with Congress toward a deal that legislates the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which Trump has vowed to wind down by early March.