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Lasher's JournalSinema indicates she may want to change Schumer-Manchin deal
Source: Axios
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.
Her posture is causing something between angst and fear in the Democratic caucus as senators wait for her to render a verdict on the secret deal announced by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Sen. Joe Manchin last Thursday.
Driving the news: Sinema has given no assurances to colleagues that shell vote along party lines in the so-called vote-a-rama for the $740 billion bill next week, according to people familiar with the matter.
Read more: https://www.axios.com/2022/07/30/sinema-schumer-manchin-deal-democrats
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