Sen. John Fetterman Denies Reports That He Doesn’t Want To Serve In Congress Anymore After News Of Unstable Behavior

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Alessio AtriaJune 5, 2025, 2:24 pmNews >

Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pennsylvania) denied reports alleging that he does not want to serve in Congress anymore.

Early last month, various Democratic senators shared concerns about Fetterman’s unstable behavior.

On Monday morning, Fetterman and Sen. Dave McCormick (R-Pennsylvania) had a bipartisan discussion about key issues affecting the commonwealth and the United States. This discussion, which aired on Fox Nation, took place in Boston at The Senate Project.

“How do you answer these calls from the Philadelphia Inquirer for you to be more engaged in showing up to represent your constituents in Pennsylvania? And questioning whether you have the desire to continue doing so,” one reporter asked the Democratic senator.

“Oh, well, no,” he replied. “For me it’s it’s very clear. It’s just part of like this weird – this weird smear – this thing. And now the things more – I started to kind of, you know, be following Israel or the border and now really refusing to vote to shut the government down. I’ve continued to get more and more kinds of incoming, and those things.

“So the more kinds of left kind of media continues to have these kinds of an attack. And it’s just part of a smear, and it’s just not accurate. And we move on, and why we’re still having this conversation – Why, at this point?

“I’m here. I’m doing that job. I’m defending on all those things and all of those important votes. I’ve always been there. If I miss some of those quotes – I mean some of those votes – I’ve made 90% of them – and we all know those votes that I’ve missed were on Monday. Those are travel days, and I have three young kids, and those are throwaway procedural votes that were never determined. If they were important, that’s a choice that I made. And if you want to attack me for that, go ahead.

The senator then pointed out that even Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) and Patty Murray (D-Washington) “missed more” votes than he did

“So why aren’t the – the left media yelling [at them] and demanding them and claiming they’re not doing their job,” he asked.

They had private discussions about how they could help him after a New York Magazine report revealed that he behaves unpredictably and in a way that might pose a danger to himself or others.

On May 8, he attended a hearing with Sam Altman, the chief executive of OpenAI. This marked the first time he occupied his seat on the dais of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee in 2025.