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The former Arizona senator, Kyrsten Sinema, I-Arizona, criticized several prominent democratic figures for his apparent Flip-Flop on the use of the filibuster in recent days.
The legislator accused legislators as Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Dn.y., Rep. Pramila Jayopal, Dwash. RO Khanna RepresentativeD-Calif., And others of hypocrisy to urge the Senate Democrats to filibusters of the last draft Government’s expenses law, after requesting the end of the filibuster in past years.
“Change of heart in the filibuster, I see!” Sinema said about a news article about the leader of the Senate Occasion-Cortez, Chuck Schumer, Dn.y., to say that he would give up and vote for the bill to avoid a government closure.
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The former independent senator of the United States of Arizona, Kyrsten Sinema started certain Democratic legislators for urging to filibuse the recent Stopgap spending bill after they supported the elimination of the filibuster years ago. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
Democratic senators voted to end the filibuster in 2022 to help pursue the legislative agenda of the Biden Administration. Biden himself has referred to the legislative tool as a “relic of the era of Jim Crow”.
However, Sinema and Senator Joe Manchin, Dw.va., voted against the measure At that time, making the effort fall apart. Both legislators captured the heat of democratic legislators and their voters.
Sinema, a former Democrat, spent part of his weekend pointing to liberals who demanded that Democratic senators retain their votes for continuous resolution (CR). The senators, including the leader of the Senate Minority, Chuck Schumer, Dn.y., and nine other Democrats, continued voting 54-46 to pass it.
In his position against Ocasio-Cortez, the former Arizona legislator included a capture of capture of the old Democratic positions that demanded the end of the filibuster so that Democratic legislators could be triggered through legislation that protects Roe V. Wade.
Sinema’s reprimand caught the attention of the squad member. “Not yet,” she replied. “In fact, the same Democrats who argue to keep the filibuster ‘for when we need it’ No, in fact, they do not use it when we need it. It is only used to block Dem’s policies. Never block the harmful republicans. It could have shown that we were wrong. Instead, they demonstrated the point.”
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The representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, DN.Y., recently criticized the leader of the Chuck Schumer Senate minority, DN.Y., for non-filibusters of the bill of government expenses passed through the house. Sinema swept the congresswoman for the position, while supporting the end of the filibuster in 2022. (Screen capture/CNN)
Sinema retreated, pointing out how a large part of the Democratic senators tried filibusters the CR, although they previously supported ending the filibuster. “Literally, Zero Senate Democrats support the filibuster. 38 voted for Filibuster the continuous resolution yesterday. 8 who previously voted to eliminate the filibuster (19/19/22) was not a filibuster. 1 who previously campaigned against the filibuster was not a filibuster.”
Sinema also marked Khanna, sharing an image of the Washington Post 2021 column who wrote condemning the filibuster in response to his Friday X post that said that Schumer sold the non -filibusteros to the party. The former Arizona legislator cited his column so that he ding him, wrote: “‘defends the Constitution and our democracy’ #Ohlookthefilibuster.”
She Jayopal torn In addition, share your old position asking for the end of the filibuster in response to it demanding that the Senate has not voted on Friday. Sinema subtitled the accusatory publication, stating: “Simply surprised to see the support for the ‘Jim Crow Filibuster’ here.”
Sinema also addressed the former secretary of the United States Labor Department, Robert Reich. The former Clinton official turned into an expert in the media published on Friday: “The true election that Democrats face is not between a continuous resolution that allows the government to function normally or a government closure. According to Trump’s regime, the government does not work normally. It is already closing. Why vote to legitimize Trump’s blow?”
The legislator responded with a screenshot of his post 2022 post, the vote grill to keep the filibuster. She subtitled the screenshot, stating: “I’m glad to see that you have joined the Filibuster Admiration Club!”
The representatives of Reich, Ocasio-Cortez, Khanna and Jayapal did not immediately respond to the request for comments from Fox News Digital.
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