Democratic Senator John Fetterman (PA) delivered a scathing rebuke of his own party on Sunday, telling CNN’s State of the Union that Democrats “really need to own” the ongoing government shutdown, which he labeled an “absolute fail” and “embarrassing.”

The Pennsylvania Senator criticized the tactic of keeping the government closed to pressure Congress into extending Affordable Care Act (ACA) tax credits, calling it the “wrong tactic” and one that is hurting the very people the party claims to fight for.

Fetterman painted a stark picture of the shutdown’s human cost, highlighting several concrete statistics:

42 Million Americans are at risk of losing their SNAP benefits as a result of the funding lapse, a situation the Senator called “deeply, deeply distressing.”

Federal workers h

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