{"id":77060,"date":"2026-08-06T08:58:50","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T13:58:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/06\/fetterman-answers-whether-hell-cross-the-aisle-to-confirm-trump-ag-nominee-todd-blanche\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T08:58:50","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T13:58:50","slug":"fetterman-answers-whether-hell-cross-the-aisle-to-confirm-trump-ag-nominee-todd-blanche","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/06\/fetterman-answers-whether-hell-cross-the-aisle-to-confirm-trump-ag-nominee-todd-blanche\/","title":{"rendered":"Fetterman answers whether he’ll cross the aisle to confirm Trump AG nominee Todd Blanche"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sen. John Fetterman<\/a>, D-Pa., said Wednesday he would not vote for acting Attorney General Todd Blanche to officially take over the role leading the Department of Justice.<\/p>\n

During a Wednesday appearance on comedian Jon Stewart’s podcast, Fetterman was pressed on Democrats’ failure to use the Senate<\/a> filibuster to block President Donald Trump’s Cabinet nominees. The senator responded by claiming he would not vote for Blanche, who is Trump’s choice for attorney general.<\/p>\n

“Many of them I didn’t vote for,” Fetterman said, referring to Trump’s Cabinet nominees.<\/p>\n

JOHN FETTERMAN MAKES IT ‘VERY CLEAR’ THAT HE’S ‘NOT GOING TO BE A REPUBLICAN’ DESPITE DEM BACKLASH<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

“And if you’re going to bring up Blanche, I’m not going to vote for him as well. There are some that I would vote for, and then there are many that I haven’t because I just don’t believe that’s the right person for the job overall. I really try to call balls and strikes,” he told Stewart.<\/p>\n

Fetterman has been one<\/a> of the Democratic senators most supportive of Trump’s Cabinet nominees, voting “yea” to confirm half of his nominees, according to a Fox News Digital review.<\/p>\n

He was the only Democrat to support Trump’s previous choice for attorney general, Pam Bondi<\/a>. He also helped push Markwayne Mullin, the newest Homeland Security secretary, over the line, casting the decisive vote to advance Mullin out of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, 8-7. Fetterman was again the only Democrat to vote for Mullin’s confirmation, joining the 53 Senate Republicans to confirm Mullin in a 54-37 vote<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Despite Fetterman supporting Trump’s previous pick to head the Department of Justice<\/a>, it appears the president will not be able to count on his vote this time around.<\/p>\n

TRUMP AG PICK TODD BLANCHE FACES SENATE TEST IN FIRST MAJOR CONFIRMATION FIGHT SINCE GRAHAM\u2019S DEATH<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Bondi won her nomination<\/a> from the Senate in a 54-46 vote. Todd Blanche will likely have at least two fewer votes than that tally, as Fetterman joins Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, in publicly expressing opposition to Blanche.<\/p>\n

“Mr. Blanche has taken several actions that have further eroded the department\u2019s independence, and that is the basis for my vote to oppose his confirmation,” Collins said Tuesday<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Collins notably voted to confirm<\/a> Blanche as the assistant attorney general in March.<\/p>\n

Two other potential GOP holdouts \u2013 Sens. Bill Cassidy, R-La., and Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, \u2013 are still undecided, according to The Hill<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A pair of Republicans who had previously opposed Blanche’s nomination \u2013 Sens. John Cornyn, R-Texas, and Thom Tillis, R-N.C. \u2013 flipped to “yeas” after Blanche agreed to stop pursuing a planned anti-weaponization fund<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Senate Judiciary Committee voted to advance<\/a> Blanche’s nomination to the full Senate on a strict party line vote, 12-10.<\/p>\n

Fox News Digital contacted the White House, the DOJ and Fetterman for further comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., said Wednesday he would not vote for acting Attorney General Todd Blanche to officially take over the role leading the Department of Justice. During a Wednesday appearance on comedian Jon Stewart’s podcast, Fetterman was pressed on Democrats’ failure to use the Senate filibuster to block President Donald Trump’s Cabinet nominees. The … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77060\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}