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Joy Behar told her co-hosts Wednesday on ABC’s “The View” that Sens. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) and Joe Manchin (D-WV) were enemies of the democracy for opposing President Joe Biden’s 3.5 trillion dollar reconciliation bill. Behar said, “What I think is making Biden administration shakey right now is what’s going on in the democrats, between the moderates and the progressives, because he was really on track to be the next Lyndon Johnson with the great society programs.”

Sinema told the Arizona Republic in a statement that she thinks the bill is too costly, and "will work in good faith to develop this legislation with my colleagues and the administration to strengthen Arizona's economy and help Arizona's everyday families get ahead." Ocasio-Cortez took to Twitter to call out the Arizona Democrat, writing: "Good luck tanking your own party's investment on childcare, climate action, and infrastructure while presuming you'll survive a 3 vote House margin - especially after choosing to exclude members of color from negotiations and calling that a 'bipartisan accomplishment.'" Ocasio-Cortez previously criticized the lack of diversity...

Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) announced Wednesday that she would not support the Democrats’ $3.5 trillion budget bill after Senate Republicans and Democrats secured a deal for her bipartisan infrastructure bill. Sinema told Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) that she does not support such an expensive infrastructure bill. In comparison, her and Republicans’ infrastructure bill costs $1.2 trillion. “I have also made clear that while I will support beginning this process, I do not support a bill that costs $3.5 trillion — and in the coming months, I will work in good faith to develop this legislation with my colleagues...

Sinema is more of a Republican than McCain wasBREAKING: Sinema won't support Democrats' $3.5T infrastructure billhttps://t.co/jPQhJnXV1l— Jack Posobiec (@JackPosobiec) July 28, 2021

Prominent activists Rev. Jesse Jackson and Rev. William Barber II have been arrested during a sit-in at Senator Kyrsten Sinema's office in Phoenix, according to fellow protesters. Jackson and Barber took part in the protest on Monday with the full intent of being arrested, in order to draw attention to their demand to abolish the Senate filibuster, according to organizers. Activist Erika Andiola, a former spokeswoman for Senator Bernie Sanders' 2016 presidential campaign, said on Twitter that at least 30 people had been arrested in the sit-in, including Jackson and Barber.

Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) said during her 2018 Senate campaign that she wants to be the next “John McCain,” according to a report released Friday. Sinema, a moderate-leaning Democrat who frequently bucks her own party, told her advisers in 2018 that she wants to emulate “John McCain.” The Arizona Democrat lauded the former Arizona Senate Republican and one-time presidential candidate, calling him a “legend” and “my personal hero.” Sinema even copied some of McCain’s most dramatic acts in the Senate, including when he bucked his own party.

Alejandra Gomez worked tirelessly to get Democrats, including Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, elected in 2018. But now she feels betrayed. The 39-year-old co-executive director of the community organizing group LUCHA went door to door in the sweltering Arizona heat in 2018, turning out the Democratic voters that helped get Sinema elected to the Senate. The work was arduous and the hours long, but Gomez and others believed deeply in the need to defeat Republican Martha McSally, who had aligned herself with then-President Donald Trump. Her work paid off -- Sinema won by nearly 3 percentage points. But it is what happened...

Some of the folks on the left have been seething at Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ), viewing them as the blockers to Democrats being able to eliminate the filibuster and seize total power.There’s no question that Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema have been standing strong to protect the rules and defend the rights of the minority party.But they’re not the only people, as some have pointed out, although they get most of the press. Democrats have a much deeper issue because some others are also not so happy with these efforts. But those Democrats are happy...

President Biden zinged Democratic Sens. Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin — insinuating that they align themselves more with Republicans than their own party — while calling for Congress to take action on legislation to protect voting rights. While he didn’t name them, Biden indirectly referred to Manchin, D-W.Va., and Sinema, D-Ariz., as “two members of the Senate who vote more with my Republican friends.” "I hear all the folks on [TV] saying, ‘Why doesn’t Biden get this done?’ Well, because Biden only has a majority of effectively four votes in the House and a tie in the Senate, with two...

If you’re counting on Joe Manchin to save the Republic… – Well, you might want to think again. For all his bluster and fake media coverage about being some sort of “moderate” Democrat, West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin has always been nothing but a reliable, down-the-line leftwinger who operates in what I like to call the Lloyd Bentsen mode of being a senator. You might remember Lloyd Bentsen, the long-time Texas senator who ran for the vice presidency in 1988 as Michael Dukakis’s running mate. During his 22 years in the senate from 1971 through 1993, Bentsen was the quintessential...

Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-MI) called Wednesday for Sens. Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) to lose their positions in Congress if they kill their party’s spending legislation. “If they make a commitment, we’re on,” Schakowsky said in a C-SPAN interview, speaking in reference to the duo’s position on $4.5 trillion in spending that Democrats have been pursuing through two legislative proposals. “If they don’t, how can we go forward?” Asked what she would like to see happen if the legislation failed, Schakowsky — a 22-year member of the House and vice chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus — said...

As anyone paying a modicum of attention knows, West Virginia Democrat Joe Manchin has been one of the central Democratic obstacles to enacting Joe Biden’s Build Back Better plan. Unlike his enigmatic colleague Kyrsten Sinema, Manchin has been vocal about the parts of the sprawling bill he dislikes. But while his opposition to a billionaires tax, paid family leave, and a comprehensive plan to fight climate change are well-known, he has also killed the chances for several even more popular but lesser-publicized proposals. A short list below. 1) Ending spam calls about your car’s warranty. It seemed like a no-brainer....

Idon’t know about you, but I’ve had it “up to here” with Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema. For the good of the Republic, we should all chip in and buy them a one-way ticket back to West Virginia and Arizona. And keep them there. In fact, the most insane rumor floating around Washington this week was that Manchin might leave the Democratic Party and become a Republican. Are you kidding? He’s never been a Democrat, and neither has Kyrsten Sinema. They’re not team players. Each of them is in it only for themselves. And each of them is willing to...

A tax slapped on billionaires is unconstitutional. You cannot have a wealth tax. This has long been documented, but please don’t tell the Democrats. I want to keep this ongoing theater of broken dreams going. They have no mandate to do what they’re doing concerning government spending. None. They think they do, which is why things are such a mess. And the irony of it all is that Democrats are the ones mucking up the works for a Biden legislative win. It’s right there, folks. Right there. It’s the $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill that has over a dozen GOP...

President Joe Biden has postponed his flight to meet the Pope so that he can stay in Washington DC several hours longer, and try and convince his own party to back his infrastructure bill. Biden was due to fly to Rome early on Thursday, ahead of his Friday audience at the Vatican. The president, a lifelong Catholic, has pushed his flight back by several hours to try and secure a deal. He is still expected to meet Pope Francis on Friday, and hold a meeting with Emmanuel Macron, the French president. World leaders are gathering in Rome for the G20...

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) on Tuesday criticized a proposal to increase the amount of information the IRS receives about bank accounts, saying he thinks it is unlikely to be included in Democrats' social spending package. "I think that one's going to be gone," Manchin said at an event hosted by The Economic Club of Washington, D.C. Democrats are considering the IRS bank-reporting proposal as a way to raise revenue to finance their social spending measure. It would require banks to report to the IRS the total amount of money that came in and out of an account during a year....

Will he? Won't he? Is there a possibility he might? Or perhaps he won't? What seems to be his latest attitude? Welcome to the absurdly obsessive world of Politico reading the Senator Joe Manchin tea leaves trying to find a clue as to how the Reconciliation bill negotiations are going. The latest example of Politico microanalyzing Manchin came on Monday This obsession was reflected in at least SEVENTEEN (17) Politico stories featuring Manchin in one day.It's almost as if they're a staff full of Democrats who are deeply invested in the belief that the rise or fall of the Party...

West Virginia Democratic Senator Joe Manchin said he is asked 'every day' about switching to the GOP. When asked on Tuesday if he thinks it would be easier if he just 'shifted to being a Republican' the senator replied: 'Oh, it would be much easier, my goodness.' In an interview with billionaire David Rubenstein at a breakfast event for The Economic Club Manchin said: 'What I'm telling you now is who I am. Do you think by having a "D" or an "I" or an "R" is going to change who I am?'

Joe Manchin is the gift that keeps on giving. Well, at least if you are a Republican hoping someone holds the line against Joe Biden’s “build back better” agenda.The West Virginia senator has already demanded (and will get) deep cuts to the formerly $3.5 trillion reconciliation bill. He’s also stood in the gap against some of the more harmful climate change and entitlement provisions. To continue that theme, he nuked another major Biden priority today.As RedState reported, the progressives have been pushing new reporting requirements to snoop on bank accounts with at least $10,000 in outflows over the course of...

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) said Tuesday he hopes the $1.2 trillion “bipartisan” infrastructure bill will pass the House by the end of this week. “I would like to hope it passes Wednesday evening,” Manchin said, and noted to reporters President Biden needs a win with New Jersey and Virginia holding gubernatorial elections this coming Tuesday. “By the end of the week,” Manchin said as a last resort.