Report: Kyrsten Sinema Is Not Returning Joe Biden’s Phone Calls Wendell Husebø 8 Oct 202
Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (R-AZ) reportedly does not always return President Biden’s phone calls concerning the negotiations of reconciliation, CNN reported Thursday.
“Biden himself has sounded exasperated at both Manchin and Sinema,” according to Democrat lawmakers who have spoken to Biden about reconciliation negotiations. “The President told progressives this week that he has spent many hours with the two senators ‘and they don’t move.'”
The legislative standoff is so bad that CNN’s sources told the news organization that Sinema does not “always” return phone calls from Biden.
To resolve any bad blood between the negotiating factions, Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) reportedly suggested Biden assemble both senators in a room to hammer out a compromise on the massive tax and spend package, but Biden reportedly believes that would not help the interparty standoff.
The president “told the progressive House Democrats that he’s been in politics a long time — and getting them together in the same room would almost be like ‘homicide,'” CNN reported.
“I just think it’s a matter of getting them in the same room,” Sen. Jon Tester (D-MT) told CNN. Asked if he was concerned the Democrat infighting could derail Biden’s entire agenda, Tester said, “yes.”
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