The U.S. Senate worked overtime through the weekend as Republicans pushed to pass a massive bill enacting and funding parts of President Donald Trump’s policy agenda while Democrats used every tactic available to stall and thwart the effort.
It was all too much for Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA), who lamented to reporters on Monday that all he wanted was “to go home” and join his family for the upcoming July 4 holiday weekend, The Hill reported.
Fetterman’s grumbling should be aimed at his fellow Democrats, however, and not Republicans, as it is the former instead of the latter who have forced several time-consuming procedural moves that caused the Pennsylvania senator to miss a family vacation at the beach.
Fetterman just wants “to go home”
The nation’s senators have been largely confined to Washington D.C. for the past several days for a marathon session of votes on proposed amendments and other procedures related to the so-called “One Big, Beautiful Bill” that includes numerous aspects of President Trump’s agenda.
Asked Monday morning about the lengthy processes that kept senators on Capitol Hill over the weekend, Sen. Fetterman replied, “Oh my God, I just want to go home. I’ve already … I’ve missed our entire trip to the beach.”
“Again, I’m gonna vote no. There’s no drama, ya know, how the votes are gonna go. In fact, the only interesting votes are gonna be on the margin,” he continued as he named off a couple of his Republican colleagues who’ve expressed their opposition to certain portions of the Trump-backed bill.
“All the Democrats, we all know how that’s gonna go, and I think — I don’t think it’s really helpful to put people here until some ungodly hour,” Fetterman added of the planned “vote-a-rama” on dozens of proposed amendments that was expected to last through the night and into Tuesday morning.
Fetterman on the ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ debate in the Senate: “Oh my God, I just want to go home.”
“I’ve already missed our entire trip to the beach!”
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) June 30, 2025
Democrat delay tactics
To be sure, Senate Republican leadership has mounted a strong push to pass the Trump-backed megabill ahead of the Independence Day weekend, but it is their Democratic counterparts who’ve made the process as lengthy and time-consuming as possible, according to CBS News.
First, Democrats forced the nearly 1,000-page legislation to be read aloud in its entirety from the Senate floor over the weekend, which took almost 16 hours to complete, then used up every available minute of debate time to rail against the bill in floor speeches, which delayed the marathon vote session on amendments until Monday.
The delay tactics didn’t end there, either, as Democrats proceeded to propose numerous amendments to the bill that they knew had no chance of being included and were intended solely to get Republicans on record on several controversial issues more than a year ahead of the midterm election season next summer and fall.
Republicans are confident the bill will be passed
As of Tuesday morning, according to ABC News, Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) expressed cautious optimism that he had convinced or made deals with enough of the handful of Republican holdouts to guarantee passage of the so-called “megabill” in a planned final vote later in the day.
As a precaution, however, Vice President JD Vance was dispatched to Capitol Hill early Tuesday morning to be on hand just in case he was needed to cast a potential tie-breaker vote once the final roll call was held.
Should the bill finally be passed with a simple majority under the arcane budget reconciliation rules, it will then be sent back to the House to see if the Republican majority agrees with the added amendments, after which it will be sent to President Trump to be signed into law.
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