Nobody Knows What Sen. Kyrsten Sinema Wants, And It's Holding Up The Biden Agenda
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Nearly all of President Joe Biden’s policy agenda is on the line in Washington this week.
Democrats have to pass a government spending package by midnight Sept. 30, and they were expected to vote on a pair of massive infrastructure bills this week — one focused on so-called hard infrastructure, like roads and bridges and another focused on soft infrastructure — this is where the president’s ambitions to make progress on climate change, education, childcare and other social safety net issues would be.
Negotiations over that pair of bills, though, is stalled.
There’s a lot of political back and forth going on behind the scenes that explains why, but Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema is at the center of it.
The Show spoke with Politico’s Senate reporter, Marianne LeVine, to learn about the situation and what Sen. Sinema wants.
