A senior official made Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham the target of the administration's ire on Thursday, hurling insults at lawmaker in a call that the White House refused to fully put on the record.

Graham was personally and repeatedly chastised as an 'obstacle' to achieving immigration reform in the United States by the official who hails from the same political party as the South Carolina Republican during an afternoon call with reporters.

'I'm not aware of when Lindsey Graham became the chairman of the Democratic conference,' the official seethed.

A senior official made Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham the target of the administration's ire on Thursday, hurling insults at lawmaker in a call that the White House refused to fully put on the record

The official said that an amendment to the immigration legislation the Senate was considering that was backed by a bipartisan group of senators, including, Graham, was 'catastrophically drafted' and the White House would be calling sponsors' offices asking them to reconsider, 'allowing for the possibility they were simply egregiously informed about the bill's outrageous content.'

Progress will only be made when senators realize their 'totally unworkable and 'reckless schemes have no chance of going anywhere,' the official said, blasting the lawmakers' proposals as 'totally and completely unserious.'

'We are not being hyperbolic in describing how massively reckless and dangerous this proposal is, the official said.

Graham said Thursday that he would make a personal appeal to the White House to back off its position and was firmly swatted down on the administration's conference call.

'He has been an obstacle to immigration reform. He has been an obstacle in the way of getting relief for Dreamers,' a White House official said.

'If you look at the history of failed immigration reform bills, at some point you have to ask yourself the question to whether Lindsey Graham's involvement in drafting those bills is that instead of being a solution to the problem, Lindsey Graham's presence on those bills is the problem.'

The official said later in the call that Graham had brought it upon himself because he 'makes statements about DHS which are false.'

Earlier in the day, Graham had said that Trump is 'most days pretty good' on immigration, but the president is 'being led down a path where we won’t get a result.'

The senator went after senior policy adviser to the president Stephen Miller and a Department of Homeland Security press secretary, Tyler Houlton, calling them, 'two of the most extreme characters' in Washington when it comes to the topic of immigration.

Miller received an assist from Sen. Tom Cotton, the author of merit-based immigration legislation that President Trump has endorsed, saying on Twitter that it is 'embarrassing for a senator to attack a staffer.'

'No worse example of punching down & bullying someone who can't defend himself,' the Arkansas Republican said.

President Trump jumped into the debate later in the day with tweets that blasted the amendment at the center of the dispute that had been put forward by Sens. Chuck Schumer, Mike Rounds and Susan Collins as a 'total catastrophe.'

Schumer is the Senate Democratic leader. Rounds and Collins are Republicans.

The amendment that needed to win 60 votes for passage was introduced by eight Republicans and eight Democrats. It failed after the White House's full-scale assault on a 54-45 vote.

President Trump jumped into the debate later in the day with tweets that blasted the amendment at the center of the dispute that had been put forward by Sens. Chuck Schumer, Mike Rounds and Susan Collins as a 'total catastrophe'

The legislation would have given Trump the $25 billion in border security funds he asked for and was circulated with the promise that 1.8 million illegal immigrants routinely referred to as Dreamers would have a pathway to citizenship.

A senior official told DailyMail.com that the number of illegal immigrants who would have been protected was actually significantly higher than what was being reported, though. The amendment would have given 3.3 million people amnesty, according to the Migration Policy Institute's assessment, the official stated.

It also lacked two measures Trump is demanding that make dramatic changes to the legal immigration system.

The White House took issue with another section directing DHS to focus their attention on illegal immigrants who have been convicted of crimes or are a threat to national security.

Illegal immigrants who come to the U.S. after June 30, 2018 should be a priority for deportation, it said as well.

'Preventing enforcement with respect to people who entered our country illegally before a date that is in the future would produce a flood of new illegal immigration in the coming months,' White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said in a statement.

Trump's spokeswoman said the president would veto any legislation that came to him bearing the bipartisan amendment.

The Department of Homeland Security had also taken an aggressive stance in direct opposition to the bill.

'By halting immigration enforcement for all aliens who will arrive before June 2018, it ignores the lessons of 9/11 and significantly increases the risk of crime and terrorism,' DHS said an early morning press release. 'The changes proposed by Senators Schumer-Rounds-Collins would effectively make the United States a Sanctuary Nation where ignoring the rule of law is encouraged.'

'This vote is proof that President Trump’s plan will never become law. If he would stop torpedoing bipartisan efforts, a good bill would pass,' Schumer, the Democratic leader in the Senate, said Thursday after the White House tanked his bill

Echoing DHS, Trump fumed on Twitter that the changes would be 'the end of immigration enforcement in America.'

'It creates a giant amnesty (including for dangerous criminals), doesn’t build the wall, expands chain migration, keeps the visa lottery, continues deadly catch-and-release, and bars enforcement even for FUTURE illegal immigrants,' the president said.

'Voting for this amendment would be a vote AGAINST law enforcement, and a vote FOR open borders. If Dems are actually serious about DACA, they should support the Grassley bill!'

The Grassley amendment, named after Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley, hands Trump everything he's asking for. But the legislation has not gained traction in the Senate.

'This is the one and only bill that deals with immigration issues with broad bipartisan support,' Collins said of her bill on Thursday.

A White House official said that Grassley's bill is the only one that the White House is willing to get behind in the Senate that has come to the floor during the open debate on immigration, however.

After the amendment failed, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi accused the president of 'sabotaging' a legislative fix to immigration problems he's complained about.

'The Republican Congress must have the courage to pass legislation to protect Dreamers now,' she said.

Sen. Mitch McConnell, the leader of the Senate, indicated Thursday evening that he was running out of patience.

'I think it’s safe to say this has been a disappointing week. I kept my commitment and set aside the entire week for a broad, productive debate over DACA, border security, and other important immigration issues,' he said. 'Everyone agrees that I have held up my end of the bargain.'

The Kentucky Republican urged legislators to get behind a bill that Trump has said he'd sign after the president came 'more than halfway to meet Democrats on this issue.'

'Now, even though this week has been squandered, this does not have to be the end of our efforts to resolve these matters,' he stated. 'If a solution is developed in the future that can pass both the House and the Senate and be signed into law by the president, it should be considered.'

He added, 'But for that to happen, Democrats will need to take a second look at these core elements of necessary reform.'

Schumer signaled in a statement that a second look at Trump's demands was not likely after the failed legislative maneuvering.

'This vote is proof that President Trump’s plan will never become law. If he would stop torpedoing bipartisan efforts, a good bill would pass,' Schumer stated.