Republican Sen. David McCormick defended Donald Trump’s latest controversial moves in a rare interview, including the president’s $230 million request for the Justice Department to pay his legal bills, the demolition of the White House’s East Wing, and his party’s handling of the government shutdown.
He also compared Democrats to “terrorists” in the tense stalemate over reopening the government — though he later walked that back.
But the Pennsylvania freshman, who won his seat last fall by about 15,000 votes, sings a different tune when it comes to his one-time political rival Sen. John Fetterman.
“My position has been from Day 1 — open up the government. That’s where Sen. Fetterman, my counterpart, Democratic senator from Pennsylvania, has been,” McCormick told CNN’s Manu Raju in a wide-ranging interview for “Inside Politics Sunday,” adding that he would take the same tack if he were a member of the minority party.
Fetterman has now voted 12 times with Republicans on a short-term bill to extend current government funding levels through November 21.
“He’s had the courage to stand up for what he believes in.
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