{"id":97662,"date":"2026-01-27T03:20:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T03:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/97662\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T03:20:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T03:20:08","slug":"sen-john-fetterman-breaks-with-democrats-over-ice-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/97662\/","title":{"rendered":"Sen. John Fetterman breaks with Democrats over ICE funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The minibus of appropriations <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/7357762\/government-shutdown-ice-alex-pretti-explainer\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">needs 60 votes to survive<\/a>. Fetterman said he wants \u201ca conversation on the DHS appropriations bill\u201d and supports \u201cstripping it from the minibus.\u201d But, he stopped short of joining his Democratic colleagues on their call to action.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve also spent significant time hearing many different positions on the funding bills and maintain that I will never vote to shut our government down, especially our Defense Department,\u201d Fetterman said.\n<\/p>\n<p>He also asserted shutting down the government would not defund ICE.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI reject the calls to defund or abolish ICE,\u201d Fetterman said. \u201cI strongly disagree with many strategies and practices ICE deployed in Minneapolis, and believe that must change.\u201d\n  <\/p>\n<p>Fetterman categorized himself as a \u201cvery pro-immigration Democrat\u201d while also saying the United States should \u201cdeport all criminal immigrants.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>Before the senator released a statement, Gisele Barreto Fetterman, his wife, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pennlive.com\/politics\/2026\/01\/fetterman-mum-on-latest-ice-killing-in-minnesota-while-his-wife-laments-terror-on-communities.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">took to X<\/a> to slam the nationwide immigration crackdown as \u201cdevastatingly cruel and unAmerican.\u201d\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The minibus of appropriations needs 60 votes to survive. Fetterman said he wants \u201ca conversation on the DHS&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33492,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[43937,4283,28,30,29,743],"class_list":["post-97662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-ice-arrests","tag-john-fetterman","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-u-s-immigration-and-customs-enforcement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}