Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) opened up about his first six months in Congress and did not hold back about how the institution functions.
“There’s a fixation on a lot of dumb s—.
Bad performance art is really what it gets down to,” Fetterman said in an interview with The New York Times.
The freshman senator said everything in Washington is turning into a “culture war,” adding that not everything “has to be a think piece.”.
Specifically pointing to the debt ceiling, he claimed in the interview that here shouldn’t have been drama.
Fetterman also opened up about being away from his family all the time for his job.
His remarks come months after he checked himself into Walter Reed National Military Medical Center for clinical depression earlier this year. »