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John Fetterman Whines About How Budget Vote Is Ruining His Beach Plans



The Pennsylvania senator is more worried about his beach vacation than a bill that will cause millions of Americans to lose health care.

https://newrepublic.com/post/197437/john-fetterman-budget-vote-ruining-beach-plans

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Senator John Fetterman—known mostly for his basketball shorts, his disdain for participating at his fairly easy job, and his highly publicized mental health crisis—would rather be at the beach than in the Senate voting on Trump’s sweeping budget bill.



“Oh my god, I just wanna go home,” Fetterman said Monday in response to a question regarding when voting on the bill would end. “I’ve already … I’ve missed our entire trip to the beach, my family’s gonna be back before we … and again, I’m gonna vote no, there’s no drama. The votes are gonna go. In fact the only interesting votes are gonna be on the margin, whether that’s [Susan] Collins, [Ron] Johnson, and those, but all the Democrats, we all know how that’s gonna go. And I think—I don’t think it’s really helpful to put people here til some ungodly hour.”

While the Republican’s Senate majority makes the bill’s passing highly likely, some Democrats are still speaking out rather than longing for vacation. “If you are concerned about health care, which I suspect that everybody in the world is, this bill throws over 16 million people off the health insurance they have, according to the Congressional Budget Office, by cutting Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act by over $1.1 trillion,” Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders said on Sunday night. “In other words, the top one percent [is] getting a $975 billion tax break, and that is coming directly by throwing 16 million people off of the health insurance they have.”

But Fetterman has had a contentious relationship with the job he campaigned to do. That dynamic, combined with his mental health, extreme hatred of Palestinians, and his general rightward shift, only increase the questions surrounding his future as a Democratic senator, or as a senator at all.

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Fetterman Praises Trump's Greenland Threats: 'A Smart Thing'



https://www.thedailybeast.com/fetterman-praises-trumps-greenland-threats-a-smart-thing/

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Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman said Wednesday he’s open to Donald Trump’s idea that the U.S. acquire Greenland, telling reporters that it’s “strategically a smart thing.”

“I mean, it’s pretty reasonable, and I think it’s actually strategically a smart thing,” Fetterman said, according to NBC News. CNN’s Manu Raju added that Fetterman told the press that he would support the acquisition if Denmark did as well.

Fetterman and Trump had a meeting a few days ago at Trump’s Florida club, Mar-a-Lago, where they not only discussed Greenland but other expansionist ideas—such as reacquiring the Panama Canal.



Trump had kind things to say about Fetterman afterward. “It was a totally fascinating meeting. He’s a fascinating man, and his wife is lovely. They were both up, and I couldn’t be more impressed,” he told the Washington Examiner. “He’s a commonsense person. He’s not liberal or conservative. He’s just a commonsense person, which is beautiful.”

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John Fetterman says he would 'fully support' U.S. troops in Gaza after Trump floats proposal



The Pennsylvania Democrat, a staunch defender of Israel, has shown a public openness to working with President Donald Trump.

https://www.inquirer.com/politics/fetterman-trump-gaza-occupation-20250204.html

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U.S. Sen. John Fetterman, the Pennsylvania Democrat who has shown a public openness to working with President Donald Trump, reportedly said Tuesday that he would “fully support” a role for U.S. forces after Trump proposed a U.S. occupation of Gaza.

“The Palestinians have refused, or they’ve been unwilling, to deliver a government that provided security and economic development for themselves,” Fetterman said, according to a report from Jewish Insider. “They allowed 10/7 to occur, and now Gaza has to be rebuilt. Where are the people going to live? Where are they going to go? So it’s part of a conversation with where they’re at right now.”

Asked about the possibility of U.S. troops on the ground, Fetterman told Jewish Insider he did not know what their specific role would entail. “But they’re obviously a part of it, and I fully support,” said Fetterman, who was in Washington to vote as the lone Democrat in support of confirming Trump nominee Pam Bondi for attorney general.

During a news conference with Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday, Trump proposed relocating displaced Palestinians in war-torn Gaza, and suggested the U.S. take “ownership” of the Gaza Strip. He also said he was not ruling out deploying U.S. troops to aid in the area’s redevelopment.

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