Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) pushed back on a report questioning his mental fitness, calling it a “hit piece” and affirming that he will remain in Congress.

The Pennsylvania Democrat suffered a stroke while running for his Senate seat in May 2022. He won the election that November but later checked into Walter Reed National Military Medical Center for treatment for depression in early 2023.

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While Fetterman has said he has largely recovered from his stroke, a New York magazine report published last week, sourced by former staffers in his office, claimed the senator was struggling with his mental health. He rejected the claims of the report in an interview with CNN on Tuesday.

“It’s a one-source hit piece, and it involved maybe two or three and anonymous disgruntled staffers saying just absolute false things,” Fetterman told the outlet.

He also rejected allegations about other mental health struggles he had not been public about and other claims in the report that he was not taking his medication as prescribed by doctors.

“I’ve been very front and center about my … depression, absolutely none of these other things, and it’s like so someone that was trying to accumulate my medical records and leak those things that’s part of this weird grudge for this hit piece,” Fetterman said.

Fetterman also called the discussion of his medical history “invasive” and once again claimed his former chief of staff, Adam Jentleson, who was quoted in the New York magazine report, was holding a “weird grudge.”

“It’s incredibly invasive,” he added. “And why are people talking about anyone’s personal medical things? It’s that, you know, I think most people would agree that’s really, really invasive.”

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Fetterman said he “of course” plans to serve out the rest of his term, which expires in January 2029. When asked by the outlet if he would seek reelection to his seat, he was less firm.

“We’re not talking about ‘28,” Fetterman said. “Who knows what’s going to happen in ‘28?”