- Sens. JD Vance and John Fetterman, populists from different parties, worked together on a rail safety bill.
- Fetterman accused Vance of "silly performance art" over his doomed effort to ban mask mandates.
- Vance argued his mask crusade isn't distracting from the rail bill, and that he's been building support for it.
Two of the Senate's most prominent self-styled populists — each from different parties — are at loggerheads amid the stalled railway safety bill they drafted together.