Three Republicans — U.S. Sens. Rand Paul, of Kentucky; Susan Collins, of Maine; and Lisa Murkowski, of Alaska — voted with Democrats.
The vote comes less than a week after Fetterman published a column in The Washington Post pushing back on speculation that he may switch parties after a string of high-profile disagreements with fellow Democrats.
It doesn’t say who abstained, but someone must have, right.
The vote results were 52-47, how again is that the deciding vote?
Because that isn’t the vote total?
I don’t know how you came to that number or how someone up voted a simple factual error. You can just read the article. It was 49-50.
It doesn’t say who abstained, but someone must have, right.
Or wasn’t present. Lotta old people in the Senate. Or people who are happy to not have to go on the record for a vote.
Excuse me the vote total was 18-25