{"id":7831,"date":"2025-10-25T23:15:50","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T23:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=7831"},"modified":"2025-10-25T23:15:51","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T23:15:51","slug":"new-democrat-senator-flips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=7831","title":{"rendered":"NEW: Democrat Senator Flips"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Fetterman Breaks With Democrats<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA)<\/strong>&nbsp;criticized his own party for prolonging the<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>government shutdown, urging immediate action to restore funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThere are no winners here. It\u2019s not getting better every day here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>People are going to start to get really hungry,\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>he said, emphasizing the need to reopen the government and fund&nbsp;<strong>SNAP<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Supporting the GOP Move<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>When asked about Republicans using the \u201cnuclear option\u201d to bypass the filibuster, Fetterman said,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u201cWe ran on that. We ran on killing the filibuster, and now we love it\u2026 Carve it out so we can move on.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Call to Action<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Calling the shutdown \u201cbad political theater,\u201d he declared,&nbsp;<strong>\u201cOpen it up.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Pushback<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Critics like&nbsp;<strong>Ed Kilgore<\/strong>&nbsp;argued Fetterman misunderstood past Democratic efforts,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>noting that filibuster changes were meant for&nbsp;<strong>voting-rights bills<\/strong>, not budget disputes, saying,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s what the carve-out is for and whom it benefits.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fetterman Breaks With Democrats Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA)&nbsp;criticized his own party for prolonging the government shutdown, urging immediate action to restore funding. \u201cThere are no winners here. It\u2019s not getting better every day here. People are going to start to get really hungry,\u201d he said, emphasizing the need to reopen the government and fund&nbsp;SNAP. Supporting&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7832,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7831"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7833,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7831\/revisions\/7833"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}