PA Democratic Sen. John Fetterman To Meet With Trump

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Sen. John Fetterman has confirmed he plans to meet President-elect Donald Trump soon at Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida. In doing so, he will become the first known Democratic senator to sit down personally with Trump since the November presidential election.

Fetterman said that Trump extended him an invitation and he accepted.

“I’m the Senator for all Pennsylvanians — not just Democrats in Pennsylvania,” Fetterman said in a statement. “I’ve been clear that no one is my gatekeeper. I will meet with and have a conversation with anyone if it helps me deliver for Pennsylvania and the nation.”

Since Trump's victory in the battleground state of Pennsylvania in November, Fetterman seemingly has shifted from being an avowed Democratic progressive to someone willing to embrace Trump and his policies.

Pennsylvania's senior senator has met with several Trump cabinet nominees, including embattled defense secretary pick Pete Hegseth and Kash Patel, the president-elect's choice to head the FBI. Fetterman also is a co-sponsor of the Laken Riley Act, a GOP-led immigration bill that would mandate the detention of undocumented immigrants charged with certain nonviolent crimes.

Despite his recent willingness to support elements of the MAGA agenda, Fetterman said on ABC News' "This Week" last month that he is just "a regular Democrat" and is not leaving his party.

"I'm not sure why some of the things that I've chosen to do, like meeting with nominees and having views that might be more aligned with some of the Republican side, I think that's part of politics that's pretty much consisting with just doing the job and representing the kind of state that we have in Pennsylvania," he said.

Regarding Trump, Fetterman said, "I'm not rooting against him. If you're rooting against the president, you are rooting against the nation. And, and I'm not ever going to be where I want a president to fail."

This article contains information from the Associated Press.