Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.), who introduced days in the past that he would vote for a Home-passed funding invoice to keep away from a authorities shutdown, stated he doesn’t care about firebrand Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s (D-N.Y.) harsh criticism of Democratic senators who will vote to advance the controversial invoice.
Fetterman stated Ocasio-Cortez and different liberal lawmakers who’re calling for the Senate to dam the invoice, which might fund authorities by way of Sept. 30, don’t have a viable exit technique for ending a authorities shutdown.
And he says it’s simple for Home liberals to take potshots on the Senate when members of Congress would proceed to obtain paychecks throughout a shutdown whereas tens of hundreds of federal staff can be furloughed with out pay, presumably for weeks.
“I hope you can relay how little I care about her views on this,” Fetterman stated when requested about Ocasio-Cortez’s feedback that Senate Democrats who vote to advance the invoice are betraying their Democratic Home colleagues.
“I’m going to stand on what I happen to believe is the right thing to do but ask her, ‘What’s the exit plan once we shut the government down?’ What about all the millions of Americans who are going to have their lives damaged?” he requested.
“What about the ones that won’t have any paycheck? She’ll have her paycheck, though,” he stated.
“If we’re worried about Musk going to shut down the government or damage the government, we have the power to do the one thing that [President] Trump and [Elon] Musk can’t do, shut it down,” he asserted.
Ocasio-Cortez advised reporters Thursday that many Democrats felt a “deep sense of outrage and betrayal” over Senate Democratic Chief Chuck Schumer’s (N.Y.) announcement that he would vote to advance the Home-passed funding package deal.
Schumer acknowledged it was a “bad bill” however warned that permitting the federal government to close down can be far worse.
However Ocasio-Cortez, who has not dominated out operating for Schumer’s seat in 2028, argued that Senate Democrats who vote for the invoice will betray the Home Democrats representing districts that Trump gained who voted towards the invoice.
“There are members of Congress who have won Trump-held districts in some of the most difficult territory in the United States, who walked the plan and took innumerable risks in order to defend the American people,” she stated.
“I think it is a huge slap in the face,” she added.
Fetterman stated he’s not apprehensive.
“Whatever her views, I’m going to sleep just fine,” he stated.
