Saturday, July 30, 2022

Apparently Kyrsten Sinema resents not being the center of attention

From Axios -

Sinema indicates she may want to change Schumer-Manchin deal

Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) had a message for her Democratic colleagues before she flew home to Arizona for the weekend: She's preserving her options.

Why it matters: Sinema has leverage and she knows it. Any potential modification to the Democrat's climate and deficit reduction package — like knocking out the $14 billion provision on carried interest — could cause the fragile deal to collapse.

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  • Schumer and Manchin also inserted the language on taxing carried interest as regular income, which would raise approximately $14 billion, knowing full well that Sinema never agreed to it. That move blindsided Sinema.

We'll know if she has set up her post-Senate gig as a highly-paid industry lobbyist by how enthusiastically she tanks the bill.

My guess is that she'll only have to move her office from Capitol Hill to K Street.


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