The government shutdown has hit the Democratic Party pretty hard as one senator admits “no one really knows” who is on charge anymore.
Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) spoke on “Fox & Friends” Tuesday morning about the state of the party, Mediaite reported.
Fetterman said three is a void on leadership within the Democratic Party as “no one really knows” who is in charge.
He denied reports stating
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) reached out to moderate Democrats hoping for a compromise to end the government shutdown.
Fetterman was one of eight Democratic caucus members who voted on favor of ending the shutdown.
According to a report on Axios, Schumer discretely asked moderates to hold out.
The Pennsylvania senator said he received “no outreach.”
“I was not in a conversation, or I never got outreach. Everyone understood, I led the charge back in March and said I know we’ll be back in September and I know where my vote will be then, too. It is always a hard yes to keep our government open,” Fetterman said.
“That’s my principle because it’s wrong to shut our government down and now we knew we would put 42 million Americans for SNAP and paying our military and the Capitol Police – I mean, people have [gone] five weeks without being paid, that is violation of my core values and I think our party’s, as well,” he added.
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When co-host Lawrence Jones asked who was actually leading Democrats in Congress, Fetterman answered, “No one really knows.”
“My values are reflected in my vote and the things that I support here, and if that might put me at odds with parts of my party, I’m OK with that. I mean, we need to be a big party, a big tent party. For me, these are reasonable. My party has always been opposing shutting our government down and not sure why it is controversial now to devote these things. I refuse to put all these people in the middle of political kinds of brinkmanship.”
