John Fetterman Urges GOP to Use Nuclear Option to Reopen Government: ‘I Don’t Want to Hear Any Democrat Clutching Their Pearls’

Isaac Schorr Oct 21st, 2025, 12:00 pm

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Senator John Fetterman (D-PA) is urging his Republican colleagues to use the so-called “nuclear option” and get rid of the filibuster for spending bills in order to reopen the federal government.

In comments made to reporters on Tuesday, Fetterman — one of the three members of the Democratic caucus to vote in favor of a continuing resolution to fund the government at the outset of the shutdown fight — deplored the consequences of the failure to pass it.

“There are no winners here. It’s not getting better every day here. People are going to start to get really hungry and I’ve

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