Fetterman becomes first sitting Democrat senator to visit Trump at Mar-a-Lago

Democrat Sen. John Fetterman from Pennsylvania hasn't been scared to break from his party in the past, and now he's doing it again.

Fetterman recently announced that he was going to accept an invitation from Donald Trump to visit the president-elect at Mar-a-Lago, making the lawmaker the first known sitting Democrat senator to visit Trump at his Florida home since the election.

"President Trump invited me to meet, and I accepted. I’m the Senator for all Pennsylvanians — not just Democrats in Pennsylvania," Fetterman said in a statement.

He explained to CBS what his expectations of the meeting were.

"That is the plan. Yes, we are going to have a conversation," Fetterman said. "I think that one, he’s the president, or he will be officially. And I think it’s pretty reasonable that if the president would like to have a conversation — or invite someone to have a conversation — to have it. And no one is my gatekeeper."

In addition to being the first Democrat senator to visit Trump at Mar-a-Lago since November, Fetterman was also the first in his party to cosponsor the Laken Riley Act, which would "require federal immigration authorities to detain illegal migrants who commit theft-related crimes in the U.S and would also allow states to sue the Department of Homeland Security for harm caused to their residents because of illegal immigration."