John Fetterman: “Child poverty more than doubled last year, and Congress did not do anything to act about that, and I do not know why.”

Upon reflection, the pursuit of those short-term wins clouded the bigger picture and lasting impact of a Senate without the filibuster.

These people sat in a room and said, ‘How much crazy shit can we cram into a platform?’ Like, ‘Yeah, abolish the Senate? Sure, why not. Hey, abolish the presidency? Yeah, sure, why not?’ That’s crazy shit,

Halfway through my first term, I now recognize how important the filibuster is and the state our country would be in without it.

You know, I made the math possible for a majority in ’26. The people that pushed that garbage now just made that now more unlikely.