Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) fired back at “Squad” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez over her criticism of Senate Democrats like him who are backing the GOP spending bill that will avoid a government shutdown.
Fetterman — who has increasingly broken with Democratic ranks to side with President Trump on key issues — said Ocasio-Cortez and other lefty lawmakers calling for the Senate to block a bill that would fund the government through Sept. 30, don’t have a viable option to prevent a shutdown either.
“I hope you can relay how little I care about her views on this,” Fetterman told The Hill Friday when asked about Ocasio-Cortez’s claim that Senate Dems who vote to advance the bill are betraying their House colleagues who voted against it.
“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 said.
“What about the ones that won’t have any paycheck? She’ll have her paycheck, though.”
Ocasio-Cortez told reporters Thursday that many Democrats felt a “deep sense of outrage and betrayal” over Senate Democratic Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s announcement that he’ll vote to advance the House-passed funding plan.
“While the bill is very bad, the potential for a shutdown has consequences for America that are much, much worse,” Schumer declared in a Senate floor speech Thursday. “Allowing Trump to take even much more power is a far worse option.”
Many furious Democrats are now pushing Ocasio-Cortez to primary Schumer in response to his decision.
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