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Conservative Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pennsylvania) complained on Monday about having to be present for the Senate’s vote on Republicans’ marquee budget bill, which is projected to lead to thousands of deaths and strip millions of health insurance.

The senator, who has become infamous for his blasé attitude toward his job and his staunch pro-Israel stance, moaned that he’s missing his family’s beach vacation for the Senate’s “vote-a-rama” on the Republican bill.

“Oh my god, I just want to go home. I’ve already — I missed our entire trip to the beach,” he said, shaking his head, after being asked by a reporter about the timing of the Senate’s vote. “I’m gonna vote no, there’s no drama, we know the votes are going to go.”

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“I don’t think it’s really helpful to put people here until some ungodly hour,” Fetterman said. Fetterman’s statements were first posted online by CBS producer Alan He.

The comments expose an attitude of apathy and annoyance that the senator has toward performing the basic functions of his job — in this case, being present to vote on a bill dubbed by colleague Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) as “the most dangerous piece of legislation in the modern history of our country” and a “death sentence for........

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