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Inside The Left’s Revenge Plot Against Kyrsten Sinema
October 2, 2021
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Manchin’s demands are at least clear — slashing the bill’s spending down to $1.5 trillion, adding means testing and work requirements to social-safety net programs — and there’s little confusion about his negotiating position vis a vis the Build Back Better Act.
Sinema’s motivations are much harder to parse. Khanna and other Democrats call her opposition “
inauthentic” and
a ploy for garnering media attention as much as passing major legislation. Only fueling the animosity toward Sinema
are reports that she
left Washington on Friday while the negotiations over Biden’s legislative agenda were
still ongoing."