{"id":4675,"date":"2025-10-25T11:31:32","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T11:31:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/topstoryus.com\/?p=4675"},"modified":"2025-10-25T11:31:32","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T11:31:32","slug":"new-democrat-senator-flips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/topstoryus.com\/?p=4675","title":{"rendered":"NEW: Democrat Senator Flips"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

NEW: Democrat Senator Flips, Scorches Party For Keeping Government Shut Down<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) spoke with reporters this week, saying he supported Republicans using the \u201cnuclear option\u201d to override the Senate filibuster to pass a bill to end the government shutdown.Fetterman stated the funds for the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, known as SNAP, are running dry and people \u201cneed to eat\u201d as the shutdown heads into its 21st day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere are no winners here. It\u2019s not getting better every day here. People are going to start to get really hungry, and I\u2019ve been fully, fully committed to fund SNAP, open up the government,\u201d he went on to say, before pointing out that U.S. Capitol Police officers aren\u2019t getting paid during the shutdown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis is just bad political theater. Open it up,\u201d he told reporters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fetterman was then asked whether he supported the GOP \u201cnuking\u201d the filibuster to let a House-approved funding measure pass the Senate with a simple majority. He replied with a firm yes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe ran on that. We ran on killing the filibuster, and now we love it. Carve it out so we can move on. I support it because it makes it more difficult to shut the government down in the future, and that\u2019s where it\u2019s entirely appropriate,\u201d he explained. \u201cI don\u2019t want to hear any Democrat clutching their pearls about the filibuster. We all ran on it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, not everyone agrees with Fetterman, who in recent years has proven himself to be far more moderate than most members of his party. Ed Kilgore of New York Magazine believes the Pennsylvania senator\u2019s case for the \u201cnuclear option\u201d is faulty<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The filibuster isn\u2019t an all-or-nothing proposition, and not all carve-outs are alike. Over the years, Congress has carved out a series of exceptions to the right to filibuster Senate votes, notably executive- and judicial-branch confirmations and congressional budget measures (e.g., the huge \u201cbudget reconciliation\u201d bills like this year\u2019s One Big Beautiful Bill Act). This year, Senate Republicans also implicitly carved out certain budget scoring rules to make it easier to disguise the deficit-swelling nature of the OBBBA. So the question is not, as Fetterman appears to suggest, whether to have filibuster carve-outs: It\u2019s what the carve-out is for and whom it benefits.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Kilgore then says that what Democrats actually ran on was to \u201cexempt voting-rights measures from the filibuster following a series of state voter-suppression measures sponsored by Republican-controlled states and defended by Senate Republicans.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He concludes that it\u2019s not hypocritical for Democrats to want to end the filibuster for one item while not wanting to do so for another.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NEW: Democrat Senator Flips, Scorches Party For Keeping Government Shut Down Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) spoke with reporters this week, saying he supported Republicans using the \u201cnuclear option\u201d to override the Senate filibuster to pass a bill to end the government shutdown.Fetterman stated the funds for the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, known as SNAP,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4676,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/topstoryus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/topstoryus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/topstoryus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topstoryus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topstoryus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4675"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/topstoryus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4677,"href":"https:\/\/topstoryus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4675\/revisions\/4677"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topstoryus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/topstoryus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topstoryus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topstoryus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}