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Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman (D) says the repeated Democratic warnings that President Trump is trying to turn the United States into an “autocracy” are at odds with the hard-line stance Democratic leaders have taken on a government funding bill, which is likely to result in a shutdown that would empower Trump.

Fetterman has made it crystal clear that he thinks a government shutdown would be a disaster, and says he will vote for a House-passed continuing resolution to keep federal departments and agencies operating through Nov. 21.

“If Democrats truly believe we’re on a rocket sled to autocracy, why would we hand a shuttered government over to Trump and Vought’s woodchipper at th

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