President-elect Donald Trump is scheduled to host Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pennsylvania) at Mar-a-Lago in an already highly anticipated meeting.
CBS News reportedUnnamed sources said Trump had invited Fetterman to his luxurious beachfront home and resort in Palm Beach, Florida.
“That's the plan. Yes, we're going to have discussions,” Fetterman told the magazine.
A senior Trump transition official confirmed to Breitbart News that the talks will take place.
Fetterman, who has become the top Democratic maverick in the Senate, emphasized that 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.”
Fetterman met with several Trump Cabinet appointees, including former House Republican Conference Chair Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.), whom Trump nominated to be U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. Former U.S. Representative Sean Duffy (R-Wis.), President Trump's nominee for Secretary of Transportation. Pete Hegseth was selected by President Trump to lead the Department of Defense.
He also had a chat in the halls of Congress with Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Trump's nominee for Secretary of Health and Human Services.
In addition to positive talks with some of President Trump's nominees, Fetterman is also garnering Democratic votes in the Senate for the Laken-Reilly Act, which was passed by the Republican House. Fetterman is the first Democrat to propose this bill.
“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] Part of the reason we lost,” he told FOX News Channel. special report on tuesday.
Fox News Radio's Ryan Schmeltz reported that four other Democrats now support the bill, following Fetterman.
