Who would have ever bet money that Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) would become the one voice of reason in his party when he was running for office?
Yes, he’s still voting largely with his side. But he isn’t afraid to take a position against the majority, as he did with the government shutdown, voting from the beginning with Republicans to keep the government open. He also chastised his party repeatedly for its actions regarding the shutdown, calling what they were doing an “absolute failure” and saying “Americans are not leverage.”
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Fetterman appeared on Fox and Friends on Tuesday morning, where he was asked about the report that Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) had lobbied some Democrats who were leaning “yes” to open the government to hold out longer.
Fetterman said he was never approached.
“I was not in a conversation, or I never got any outreach,” he said, noting that he was “always a hard yes to keep our government open.”
That wasn’t all.
He ripped the Democrats for crossing a line, with things like not funding SNAP and the military. He said for him, it had to be country over party.
“MY PARTY CROSSED A LINE.”@SenFettermanPA slams his fellow Democrats for putting the party above the needs of the country. pic.twitter.com/YaY4z4Ltyi
— FOX & Friends (@foxandfriends) November 11, 2025
He then really dropped the hammer on them when he was asked by host Lawrence Jones: Who was running the show for the Democrats?
@LawrenceBJones3: Who is running the show now in the Democratic Party?@SenFettermanPA: No one really knows. pic.twitter.com/JBdtWpgBWf
— FOX & Friends (@foxandfriends) November 11, 2025
“No one really knows,” Fetterman replied.
“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 okay with that,” he stressed. “We need to be….a big tent party.”
He said he refused to put the people who were being hurt by the shutdown in the middle of the political “brinkmanship.”
That’s the problem for them. As we previously reported, 31 percent of Kamala Harris voters in 2024 answered that they didn’t know who the leader was or that it was “nobody.” Schumer only got 7.7 percent.
Their own members don’t know who the leader is, and now they are in complete chaos because of a situation all of Schumer’s own making. They sold their people a bill of goods about what the fight in the shutdown was about. So now that they caved without appearing to “save healthcare,” people on the left are furious. Then there was the story about Schumer trying to lobby people. So either Schumer was trying to hold out longer and failed, even losing his Minority Whip, Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL), to a “yes’ vote, or he wanted to play tough, knowing that he had to vote “no” while letting others vote “yes.” Either way you slice it, it doesn’t look good for him, and it may not be good for the Democrats come the midterms, between the voters who know that they were playing games and the left thinking they didn’t go hard enough.
Editor’s Note: After more than 40 days of screwing Americans, a few Dems have finally caved. The Schumer Shutdown was never about principle—just inflicting pain for political points.
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