President Trump hit Democratic lawmakers on Tuesday, suggesting that they are holding defense funding "hostage" despite continued threats posed by North Korea's missile tests.

"North Korea missile launch, it's more important than ever to fund our gov't & military! Dems shouldn't hold troop funding hostage for amnesty & illegal immigration," Trump wrote on Twitter. "I ran on stopping illegal immigration and won big. They can't now threaten a shutdown to get their demands."

After North Korea missile launch, it's more important than ever to fund our gov't & military! Dems shouldn't hold troop funding hostage for amnesty & illegal immigration. I ran on stopping illegal immigration and won big. They can't now threaten a shutdown to get their demands. — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 28, 2017

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Trump's tweet came as the chances of a government shutdown appeared more likely after Trump clashed with House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi Nancy PelosiTrump puts Supreme Court fight at center of Ohio rally CDC causes new storm by pulling coronavirus guidance Overnight Health Care: CDC pulls revised guidance on coronavirus | Government watchdog finds supply shortages are harming US response | As virus pummels US, Europe sees its own spike MORE (D-Calif.) and Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer Chuck SchumerJacobin editor: Primarying Schumer would force him to fight Trump's SCOTUS nominee CNN's Toobin: Democrats are 'wimps' who won't 'have the guts' to add Supreme Court seats Republican senator says plans to confirm justice before election 'completely consistent with the precedent' MORE (D-N.Y.) over a year-end deal to fund the government.

Pelosi and Schumer backed out of a scheduled meeting with Trump on Tuesday after the president tweeted that he saw no path forward on a deal to avert a government shutdown in December.

Pelosi and Schumer have said that they will not support a year-end funding measure unless it includes protections for young immigrants who are at risk of deportation following Trump’s decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.

Trump's tweet also came on the heels of North Korea's latest missile test — its first in more than two months. That rocket, believed by U.S. officials to be an intercontinental ballistic missile, flew farther than any other North Korean rocket to date.