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Miscalculating Sinema and Manchin could end up costing Biden
« on: February 25, 2021, 02:26:13 am »
CNN by Kevin Liptak, Lauren Fox and Kaitlan Collins 2/24/2021

The message emblazoned on the bright pink sweater Sen. Kyrsten Sinema wore presiding over the Senate this week may not have been intended specifically for the White House, but the words could still offer fair warning to the West Wing.

"DANGEROUS CREATURE," the Arizona Democrat's sweater blared in all-capital letters.

The sartorial choice might have been laughed off if it weren't for Sinema's emerging power, along with fellow centrist Democrats such as Sen. Joe Manchin, to endanger President Joe Biden's agenda in an evenly divided Senate.

Already, Sinema has said she opposes Biden's proposal to insert a minimum wage increase into a massive Covid-19 relief package that he hopes to pass by mid-March. And as Neera Tanden's nomination to lead Biden's budget office was teetering on collapse, Sinema refused to say how she would vote, prolonging the interregnum for the controversial nominee.

More: https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/24/politics/kyrsten-sinema-joe-manchin-biden/index.html