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Fetterman Draws GOP Support and Democratic Rebuke in Bipartisan Boston Forum

The Boston forum with Sen. Dave McCormick yielded cross-aisle consensus on Israel and border security

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Senator John Fetterman (D-PA) speaks during a hearing with the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs on Capitol Hill on May 20, 2025 in Washington, DC.
WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 12: U.S. Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) speaks to reporters in the Senate Subway during a series of confirmation votes for U.S. President Donald Trump's cabinet nominees at the U.S. Capitol Building on February 12, 2025 in Washington, DC. The Senate voted to confirm Tulsi Gabbard as Director of National Intelligence and completed a procedural vote for the confirmation of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as Secretary of Health and Human Services. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
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Overview

  • In Boston, Sen. John Fetterman and Sen. Dave McCormick held a bipartisan forum that yielded agreement on Israel support, border security measures and sanctions on Russia.
  • Both senators condemned a Molotov-cocktail attack on a pro-Israel gathering in Boulder and called for increased humanitarian aid to civilians in Gaza.
  • Fetterman criticized Democrats’ border policy and backed over $150 billion in Trump-era funding for wall construction and enforcement as a national security necessity.
  • The Philadelphia Inquirer’s editorial board urged Fetterman to step aside over one of the Senate’s lowest attendance records, which he defended as procedural and dismissed as a media smear with McCormick’s public support.
  • They split on the Senate’s budget reconciliation bill, with McCormick supporting its tax cuts and border provisions while Fetterman opposed cuts to Medicaid and SNAP benefits.