Sinema slams delay of infrastructure vote: 'Inexcusable'
By Caroline Vakil - 10/02/21 02:28 PM EDT
Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) on Saturday slammed the decision to delay a vote this week on the bipartisan infrastructure deal that she helped negotiate, calling it “inexcusable.”
Good-faith negotiations, the Arizona centrist argued, "require trust."
"Over the course of this year, Democratic leaders have made conflicting promises that could not all be kept — and have, at times, pretended that differences of opinion within our party did not exist, even when those disagreements were repeatedly made clear directly and publicly," Sinema said in a statement.
“Canceling the infrastructure vote further erodes that trust. More importantly, it betrays the trust the American people have placed in their elected leaders and denies our country crucial investments to expand economic opportunities,” Sinema continued.
In August, the $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill passed through the Senate in a 69-30 vote. The bill sought to provide funding for "traditional" infrastructure such as repairing bridges and roads. The bill was negotiated by President Biden as well as Senate moderates from both sides of the aisle.
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