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Dem Senator Throws Unexpected Wrench In Statement On Biden’s Infrastructure Plans

By • July 28, 2021 8:59 pm

Senator Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) opposes the Democratic Party’s $3.5 trillion budget reconciliation package.

Faced with a split Senate, Democratic leadership has been trying to push a $3.5 trillion spending bill through Congress through a procedure known as budget reconciliation, which enables them to bypass the Senate’s sixty-vote threshold for debate.

The plan, which some experts believe may cost as much as $5.5 trillion, includes parts of President Biden’s domestic spending plans, such as the American Families Plan. The approximately $1 trillion Bipartisan Infrastructure Framework is a separate piece from the Democrats’ budget proposal, which senators may start considering as early as Wednesday evening.

Sinema said on Wednesday that she is worried about the spending package’s financial consequences.

“I have also made clear that while I will support beginning this process, I do not support a bill that costs $3.5 trillion — and in the coming months, I will work in good faith to develop this legislation with my colleagues and the administration to strengthen Arizona’s economy and help Arizona’s everyday families get ahead,” Sinema said in a written statement to The Arizona Republic.

Sinema, who is one of the Senate’s more moderate Democrats, may be a concern in the side of the party’s leadership, which needs the backing of all fifty Democratic Senators to approve the $3.5 trillion plan.

Since President Biden’s inauguration, the legislator has been ready to go against the Democratic majority.

“Sinema is more of a Republican than McCain was,” Jack Posobiec shared to Twitter.

In a recent op-ed for The Washington Post, she outlined why she opposes repealing the filibuster:

“I understand bipartisanship seems outdated to many pundits. But the difficult work of collaboration is what we expect in Arizona. And I still believe it is the best way to identify realistic solutions — instead of escalating all-or-nothing political battles that result in no action, or in whipsawing federal policy reversals…”

“This question is less about the immediate results from any of these Democratic or Republican goals — it is the likelihood of repeated radical reversals in federal policy, cementing uncertainty, deepening divisions and further eroding Americans’ confidence in our government.”

Progressives chastised Sinema for voting against an amendment to the American Rescue Plan that would have increased the federal minimum wage to $15 per hour, particularly since she bobbed her knees when giving the vote, displaying body language that indicated some lightheartedness.

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