President-elect Donald Trump praised Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pennsylvania) as an impressive and “common sense guy” after their meeting at Mar-a-Lago.
In an interview with washington examiner, published On Sunday night, President Trump praised Fetterman and his wife, Gisele.
“It was a really interesting meeting. He's a charming guy and his wife is lovely. They were both in good spirits, so I couldn't be more impressed,” Trump said.
“He's a common sense guy. He's not a liberal or a conservative. He's just a common sense guy and that's beautiful,” he added.
of examiner Fetterman and Trump reportedly discussed a variety of topics during the hour-long roundtable, from border issues to how tariffs would benefit U.S. Steel.
“The people who own the steel mills are going to do very well, and the people who work in the steel mills are going to do very well,” Trump said.
In a statement to CBS News Thursday ahead of the meeting, Fetterman, who has repeatedly shown he is not afraid to think outside the Democratic mainstream, declared he has no “gatekeepers.” .
“I think either he's going to be president or he's officially going to be president,” Fetterman told CBS News. “And if the president wants to have a conversation or invite someone to a conversation, I think it's pretty reasonable to do that. And no one is my gatekeeper.”
This will be President-elect Trump's first meeting with Democratic senators at Mar-a-Lago since he took office, but Fetterman also met with several of Trump's Cabinet nominees and is the first Senate Democrat to sponsor the Republican. This is fitting considering he was a member of Congress. The House passed the Laken-Reilly Act in the Senate.
“If you can’t do that, I think that’s where it’s at.” [are] We have 47 senators, and if we don't win by seven votes, if we don't do that — at least seven votes out of 47, and we can't do that, that's why we lost. That's one of those things, that's one of those things [the reasons] Partly why we lost,” Fetterman told FOX News Channel. special report on tuesday.
Thirty-two other Democrats joined Fetterman in calling for the Department of Homeland Security to detain illegal aliens arrested, charged, or convicted of crimes such as robbery, theft, theft, and shoplifting. helped clear procedural hurdles in the Senate to force the bill to pass. .
