Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., introduced that he’ll vote towards confirming Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and previous Rep. Tulsi Gabbard to serve in President Donald Trump’s cupboard.
Trump tapped Kennedy to function secretary of the Division of Well being and Human Services and products, and Gabbard to function Director of Nationwide Intelligence.
“I’ve met with many of the cupboard nominees and feature sparsely watched their affirmation hearings. After making an allowance for what’s at stake, I’ve voted towards transferring ahead to the affirmation of Ms. Gabbard and Mr. Kennedy, and might be vote casting NO on their confirmations,” Fetterman declared Thursday evening in a submit on X.
Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., talks with West Level cadets within the senate subway on Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2024 (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Name, Inc by the use of Getty Photographs)
Kennedy introduced his candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2023, sooner than switching to an unbiased White Space bid later that yr. In 2024 he dropped out and recommended Trump.
Kennedy’s former working mate, Nicole Shanahan, spoke back to Fetterman’s submit, calling the lawmaker — who is understood for his penchant for dressed in shorts and hoodies — a “lazy slob.”
“Fetterman toys with the perfect of being a robust American Guy, however he’s a lazy slob who can not get to the health club regardless of dressed in health club garments all day lengthy. I don’t be expecting any person who can not organize to decorate themself to make just right choices, let on my own the ones as essential because the well being of a country,” Shanahan declared in a tweet.
Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., attends the Inauguration of Donald J. Trump within the U.S. Capitol Rotunda on Jan. 20, 2025 in Washington, D.C. (Kevin Lamarque – Pool/Getty Photographs)
“I am not trolling. That is a good evaluation given the outfit he wore to the President of the United State’s Inauguration. What are you able to realistically be expecting from any person who treats the American folks like this?” she added in some other submit.
Gabbard, who served in Congress as a Democrat from early 2013 thru early 2021, introduced a presidential bid in 2019, however dropped out in 2020 and subsidized Joe Biden.
In 2022, she introduced that she was once ditching the Democratic Birthday party. And in 2024, she recommended Trump and introduced that she was once becoming a member of the GOP.
Whilst Fetterman has thrown his strengthen at the back of a few of Trump’s nominees, he joined the remainder of the Senate Democratic Caucus in vote casting towards the affirmation of Russell Vought on Thursday. Regardless of Democratic opposition, Vought was once showed in a 53-47 vote.
Vought served as Workplace of Control and Price range director all the way through a part of the primary Trump management and is taking at the position once more.
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“Final yr, I referred to as out the risks of Undertaking 2025 and the wear and tear it’d do to our nation. American citizens had been confident the Trump staff had no ties to it—then nominated one in all its authors to guide OMB. My view has now not modified and I will be able to be a difficult NO on Mr. Vought,” Fetterman stated in a submit on Thursday.
