A group of House freshmen members from the Republican side of the aisle is slamming Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) over his record of supporting fiscally irresponsible policies and ignoring the reality of our situation.

The Daily Caller reports:

For some of the House Republican freshmen, the time has come to sit down with grandpa and tell him they think he has a problem.

A cadre of GOP House freshmen delivered a letter to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid Wednesday, urging him to broker a long-term deal with Republicans to keep the government funded through the fiscal year and pass a budget that makes “reasonable, responsible spending cuts.” Just for good measure, the letter preemptively blamed him if the government shuts down, too.

“Mr. Reid, your record on spending in the Senate is one of failure. You have failed to pass a budget, failed to restrain spending, and failed to put our country on sound fiscal footing. We do not accept your failure as our own,” the letter, signed by 30 House freshmen, read. “The House of Representatives is doing our job, Mr. Reid. The Senate needs to start doing theirs.”

While the GOP-controlled House has moved to address the massive spending problem facing our nation, Harry Reid’s Senate has refused to recognize the gravity of the situation.

In fact, Reid and his cronies have insisted that even the smallest of cuts is draconian, and have even supported increased spending on high-speed rail and other wasteful projects.

Reid would rather see the United States government shutdown than concede that we’re on a fiscally unsound path and admit that we need to begin reevaluating our spending priorities.

As House freshman Mike Pompeo says, doing nothing in the face of a fiscal disaster simply isn’t an option in the private sector. But Reid and his far-left friends insist on taking that course of action — or inaction, as it were — when it comes to the federal government.

House Republicans have proposed and passed measures to cut funding for National Public Radio, abortion-on-demand providers, repeal government-run health care, and cut an additional $61 billion from the budget.

Reid has refused to consider even the most common sense cuts, opting instead to keep his head in the sand and insist we’ll all be fine if we just allow the train of state to continue its course off the steep cliff.