As House Democratic leaders hold back Sinema's own Senate-passed bipartisan infrastructure bill in order to push the Arizona Democrat and Sen. Joe Manchin to support a multitrillion-dollar spending bill, Sinema is making it crystal clear that her mind can't be changed.
It's the latest entrenched position from the first-term moderate, whose resistance to changing the Senate's filibuster rules and to supporting a $3.5 trillion spending bill is enraging progressives.
Senate Democrats need all 50 of their members, including Manchin and Sinema, to pass a filibuster-proof reconciliation spending bill.
Nancy Pelosi doesn't have the votes in the House to pass the $3.5 trillion package.
Nine centrists, led by Rep. Josh Gottheimer, have signaled they could vote against the proposal unless Pelosi first permits a vote on a bipartisan, roughly $1.2 trillion bill to improve the country's infrastructure.
Still, as of now, the far left wants the $3.5 trillion reconciliation passed first but doesn't have the votes.
With these nine House Democrats, plus Sinema's opposition, the reconciliation bill looks dead right now.
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2021/08/23/sinema-im-not-backing-a-35-trillion-bill-n2594567
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