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Senate Democrats Need To Fix Its White Moderate Problem
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was right to call out Senator Krysten Sinema in her critique about the optics of the bipartisan infrastructure bill
I am so tired of these useless, self-important white moderates acting as if they are the only people who deserve a say in policy.
For months now, Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia has been the star of that particular show, sucking up all of the air in the room by taking as much opportunity of an evenly split Senate as possible — largely in the form of threatening to blow up any Democratic legislation that doesn’t suit his interests. It seems that Senator Krysten Sinema of Arizona has decided it’s her turn to play a needless antagonist.
On Wednesday, Sen. Kyrsten Sinema revealed that she does not support the Democrats’ $3.5 trillion budget plan that aims to deliver major components of President Joe Biden’s “human infrastructure” agenda that includes expanding Medicare and caregiving for the disabled and elderly, funding universal pre-kindergarten and paying for climate change initiatives. It’s long been understood by Democrats that this measure, passed under a reconciliation bill, would be passed in tandem with the separate bipartisan infrastructure deal that Sinema…
