Fetterman is one weird individual. He’ll vote D in the Senate most of the time. He’ll never be a MAGA guy. But I don’t think he’ll be a mindless AOC or Bernie Sanders guy either.
Posted on 06/03/2025 5:34:04 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) criticized his own party for failing to “handle the border appropriately” and said that thousands of illegal aliens allowed in under the Biden administration was “unacceptable.”
During a discussion with Sen. Dave McCormick (R-PA) at the Senate Project, which was co-hosted by the Edward M. Kennedy Institute and the Orrin G. Hatch Foundation, Fetterman cast support behind President Donald Trump’s One, Big, Beautiful Bill and the “roughly $150 billion” that would be go towards securing the United States southern border, focusing on illegal immigration, the Hill reported.
“If I had to find something in that, the Big, Beautiful Bill, that I could support that, that’s a mistake that our party made and that’s the border,” Fetterman told Fox News host Shannon Bream, adding that he “absolutely” supports making investments to make the southern border secure.
“I thought the border was really important, and our party did not handle the border appropriately,” Fetterman added. “Look at the numbers, 267,000, 300,000 people showing up at our border, and we can all agree that’s roughly the size of Pittsburgh. Now that’s unacceptable and that’s [a] national security issue and that’s chaos.”
“So, a secure border, being very pro-immigration as I am as a Democrat, it’s like trying to think two things must be true and sometimes that’s put me at the odds of my party and my base to assume that I’ve changed my values — and that’s never changed. That’s never changed,” Fetterman continued. “Two things must be true because we can’t pretend that we can take care of, if there’s 300,000 people showing up every month, not once a year, every month.”
Fetterman’s criticism of the Democratic Party’s handling of the southern border comes as he has previously stated during a CNN interview in January 2024,
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Actually yes they did all went according to their plan it’s almost impossible to get rid of the 20 mil that bidens regime brought in heck I think it’s higher than that
Thousands.
What border?
Ya think? They didn’t handle the border at all.
ALL over here in North Alabama. All. Over.
There’s the old “even a blind squirrel can find a nut once in a while” saying. Fetterman has moved past that.
I now put him firmly in the reasonable (and honest) classical liberal category.
By the way, he’s the only one there.
“I think it’s higher than that”
The estimate was 30 mil before that. Look around you.
Secretly, I’m sure he thinks what Biden achieved was just swell.
Bingo. Fetterman must think it was an accident, that all of those illegals snuck across the border.
I live in Los Angeles honestly it was majority illegal before Biden took power it’s how commies turned California blue
During his reign as Lt Gov he presided over the legislature. When they were putting together the package to overthrow gov wolf on his nazi covid lockdowns and arrests of citizens, John was almost screaming trying to stop the legislature from passing the constitutional amendment that gave us the power to shut down the gov’s emergency powers. The amendments passed the votes later but you have to listen to then Fetterman screaming during the session trying to shut it down. Has he changed or is he now running for a different office.
It’s shocking that a Senator doesn’t understand his own party’s intentions with the border. That is was being done on purpose.
I now put him firmly in the reasonable (and honest) classical liberal category.>>> Don’t! you have to hear the audio of him presiding over the PA legislature as lt gov.
WAY too mild of a position.
But thanks for the late to the party admission, pal. If Fetterman had expressed this in 2022, his party could have acted and won the election in 2024.
Fetterman is one weird individual. He’ll vote D in the Senate most of the time. He’ll never be a MAGA guy. But I don’t think he’ll be a mindless AOC or Bernie Sanders guy either.
Strangely, there seem to be fewer in my neck of the woods...coastal Oregon....in the last 6 or 7 years.
Now he says something
F U Fetterman.
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