Fetterman has said he is following a strict protocol from his doctors after his six weeks of treatment for clinical depression in 2023 and a stroke in 2022.

Pennsylvania U.S. Sen. John Fetterman says his absence from mundane Senate duties have been “weaponized” to portray him as mentally unfit.

This is not the route any of us wanted when so many of us gave many hours to helping him get elected," the progressive group said.