As a civil war unfolds within the Democratic Party and its popularity continues to plummet among American voters, Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) remains one of the few members of his party willing to make rational arguments on topics from foreign policy to domestic budgets.
Earlier this month, he was one of a handful of Senate Democrats who voted across party lines to advance a continuing resolution backed by the White House:
The weeks of performative “resistance” from those in my party were limited to undignified antics.
Voting to shut the government down will punish millions or risk a recession.
I disagree with many points in the CR, but I will never vote to shut our government down. pic.twitter.com/yhrnmwHUB5
— U.S. Senator John Fetterman (@SenFettermanPA) March 11, 2025
More recently, as the far-left flank of the Democratic Party continues to complain about the passage of the at bill, Fetterman is responding directly to one of that faction’s loudest voices.
As Breitbart reported:
While delivering speeches on Thursday, Ocasio-Cortez told listeners, “We need a Democratic Party that fights harder for us too,” Fox News reported.
In response, Fetterman shared a screenshot of an Axios story highlighting her comments, then added his own statement.
“Fight ‘harder’—a stunt that would have harmed millions and plunged us into chaos. We kept our government open. Deal with it,” he wrote.
Ocasio-Cortez’s complaints about her own party’s leadership have dominated much of the discussion among the political left in recent days:
🚨AOC is big mad at Chuck Schumer over caving on the CR — asked if she will ever try to challenge Schumer.
She dodges the question.pic.twitter.com/jLWnEjedeb
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) March 14, 2025
AOC calls it a “slap in the face”, says Senate Dems who vote for the CR are “codifying the chaos” and “empowering” Musk and the GOP and the “robbing of our federal government to finance tax cuts for billionaires” pic.twitter.com/vBUmSKGI2w
— The Tennessee Holler (@TheTNHoller) March 14, 2025
There's talk AOC could primary Chuck Schumer over his support for the CR. Whose side is Jon Ossoff on? He won't say.
Q: "Are you going to back Chuck Schumer in a primary fight against AOC? Do you agree with President Trump that Schumer is doing the right thing?"
Ossoff:… pic.twitter.com/1hpW8Z9Hte
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) March 14, 2025
Meanwhile, Fetterman has been arguing that Democrats should take a more pragmatic approach to partisanship if they hope to rebuild their tattered image, as The Hill reported earlier this month:
Fetterman, a centrist who was elected to the Senate in 2022, has already mocked the behavior of some Democrats during and after the president’s Tuesday night address to a joint session of Congress, calling their response to Trump a “sad cavalcade of self owns and unhinged petulance.”
“We’re becoming the metaphorical car alarms that nobody pays attention to—and it may not be the winning message,” Fetterman wrote Wednesday on X.
Rep. Al Green (D-Texas) was removed from the chamber Tuesday evening after he refused to stop yelling and waving his cane at Trump. He was later censured for the outburst in a 224-198 House vote with two members voting present, including Green. Ten Democrats voted in favor of the resolution.
Here’s a relevant clip of an interview in which he gives his own party some advice:
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