Fetterman leans on fellow Dems to reopen government: ‘This is not some sh—y game show’

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“Americans are not leverage,” Fetterman told CNN’s Manu Raju, a day before SNAP benefits were set to lapse. “This is not some sh—y gameshow about who’s winning or whatever.”

“It’s just like, we have to be better than this and just open this up,” he added.

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“It’s an absolute failure what occurred here the past month,” he said, as SNAP funding was expected to lapse Saturday and health care premiums are likely to rise due to the expiring ACA tax credits. “And now things are really going to land.”

Fetterman continued, “And imagine being a parent with a couple kids, and how you’re going to fill their refrigerator, and pack their lunches, and get on with their lives when the things that they depended on now is gone because we can’t even agree to open things up.”

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“I follow country, then party,” Fetterman told an audience at the Kennedy Center during NewsNation’s live town hall.

“I would love to have a conversation on health care [subsidies],” he added later. “But [the shutdown] is wrong for the country … I can’t vote for shutting the government down.”

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