Fetterman: I’m Sorry We Can’t Get Our Sh*t Together and Open the Gov’t

RAJU: “So what are you hearing back home about SNAP expiring and Saturday?”
Fetterman: “I’m saying that I will witness it first-hand. My wife Giselle, she develops a free store in our community, and it distributes food three times a week, and her lines have already got longer. And now I will encounter people that have no SNAP benefits starting on Saturday, and I don’t have an explanation for them. All I could say is I’m sorry. It’s an absolute failure, what occurred here for the last month, and now things are really gonna land. And imagine being a parent with a couple kids and how you’re going to fill their refrigerator and pack their lunches and get on with their lives when the things that they’ve depended on now is gone because we can’t even agree to just opened things up for it. (...) But Democrats, if we’re not allowed to just open this up, I mean, then our party has bigger problems than I thought we might have already. It’s like, that’s not controversial. Pay everybody. And you have our workers here borrow over a third of a billion dollars to pay their own bills. Like, it’s a failure. And I like I said, to all of the viewers, I’m apologizing that we can’t even get our sh*t together and just open up our government.”
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RAJU: “Schumer said this gets better politically every day for Democrats. What do you say to that?”
Fetterman: “Yeah, well, ask the hungry people on Saturday. You know, that’s the thing, you know, Americans are not leverage. This is not — this is not some sh*tty game show about who’s winning or whatever. It’s just like — like, we have to be better than this and just open this up. And I do talk to any number of Republicans, too. They agree that we have this conversation about extending these tax credits.”