‘We Ran On That’: Fetterman Mocks Democrats For Embracing Filibuster After They Vowed To Abolish It

Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman blasted his fellow Democrats for embracing the filibuster to keep the government shuttered indefinitely despite previously campaigning on nixing the procedural tool when they had control of the Senate.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer has led the vast majority of the upper chamber’s Democratic caucus in filibustering a House-passed bipartisan spending bill that would end the shutdown on eleven separate occasions. Fetterman argued that many of his Democrat colleagues have grown to love the Senate’s 60-vote threshold for most legislation while in the minority — despite previously supporting its elimination when they had control of the upper chamber.

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“We ran on that. We ran on killing the filibuster, and now we love it,” Fetterman told reporters on Tuesday. “I don’t want to hear any Democrat clutching their pearls about the filibuster. We all ran on it.”

Schumer led nearly all Democrats in voting to nix the filibuster for so-called voting rights legislation under former President Joe Biden.

Democratic turned independent Sens. Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin blocked Schumer from invoking the so-called nuclear option to change Senate rules in January 2022. If Schumer had been successful, Democrats would have been allowed to pass certain legislation using a 51-vote threshold.

A swath of Senate Democrats have also campaigned on eliminating the upper chamber’s 60-vote threshold to pass most legislation, arguing the procedural hurdle has a racist history and is deployed by Republicans to block Democratic-favored policy priorities.

Democratic Arizona Sen. Ruben Gallego