Fetterman blasts the government shutdown near-miss and says lawmakers can't 'allow' the Freedom Caucus to turn governing into 'The Steve Wilkos Show'

• Sen. John Fetterman blasted the Freedom Caucus over the government shutdown near-miss on Saturday.
• "This is not entertainment, it's governance," the Pennsylvania Democrat said in a statement.
• The Senate overwhelmingly passed a stopgap bill that was then signed into law by President Biden.

Sen. John Fetterman on Saturday slammed what he said was the normalization of congressional dysfunction after a last-minute spending bill passed by the House and the upper chamber averted a government shutdown.

But the Pennsylvania Democrat also had a more pointed message, arguing that lawmakers had to stop the ultraconservative Freedom Caucus from making government seem akin to the drama of daytime television.