The White House on Friday downplayed the ramifications of Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (Ariz.) announcing that she will leave the Democratic Party and officially register as an independent days after Democrats had secured a 51-49 majority in the Senate. “We understand that her decision to register as an independent in Arizona does not change the new Democratic majority control of the Senate, and we have every reason to expect that we will continue to work successfully with her,” press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said in a statement. Jean-Pierre praised Sinema as a “key partner on some of the historic legislation President Biden...