Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pennsylvania) is a Republican who forced his colleagues to take procedural votes at the Super Bowl on Friday night and Sunday to pass funding measures for Ukraine and Israel. He called Sen. Paul (R-Ky.) a “peckerhead.” .
Fetterman, who often wears a Pittsburgh Steelers beanie in the Senate, continues to stir senators’ votes during the Super Bowl to make the process of passing the emergency defense spending bill as difficult as possible. It seemed that he was not at all satisfied with Mr. Paul’s threat.
“Really, the biggest news is that we’re all here at 8 o’clock on a Friday night because of one peckerhead,” Fetterman told reporters outside the Senate chamber. I was furious.
The Pennsylvania senator also joked that he should wear a T-shirt that simply says, “It’s the Republicans’ fault.”
“That’s the answer: No borders? Well, it’s the Republicans’ fault,” said Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.), who negotiated bipartisan border security with the White House and four Senate Democrats. he said, referring to the majority vote in the Senate Republican conference this week to block the deal. A few months.
Fetterman vented his frustration with Paul’s tactics after the Kentucky senator repeatedly threatened senators not to speed up the timeline for passing the aid package.
Paul: “I’m doing everything in my power to slow down and stop this horrible bill.” I wrote to Xthe platform formerly known as Twitter.
He said the 32 Senate Republicans “want to keep fighting” to add tough border security reforms to funding packages for Ukraine and Israel.
“The leadership of the Senate is [Senate Republican Leader] Mitch McConnell [Ky.] They’re more worried about sending money to Ukraine than they are about invading the southern border, and enough is enough,” Paul told FOX Business.
“I told them they could vote even when hell froze over,” he declared.
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