(File Photo of Senator John Fetterman)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Washington, D.C.) According to a release from Senator John Fetterman’s office, Fetterman (D-PA) voted with 59 of his Senate colleagues in Washington D.C. yesterday to break the filibuster and advance H.R.5371, the Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act. The following statement was also recently released by Fetterman: 

“After 40 days as a consistent voice against shutting our government down, I voted YES for the 15th time to REOPEN. I’m sorry to our military, SNAP recipients, gov workers, and Capitol Police who haven’t been paid in weeks. It should’ve never come to this. This was a failure.”