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[quote=Anonymous]"Sen. KYRSTEN SINEMA (D-Ariz.) delivered a tough message to President JOE BIDEN at a private meeting Wednesday, we’re told: If the House delays its scheduled Sept. 27 vote on the bipartisan infrastructure plan — or if the vote fails — she won’t be backing a reconciliation bill."

https://www.politico.com/newsletters/playbook/2021/09/20/scoop-sinema-issues-ultimatum-to-biden-494397

This seems like a very odd threat to me.  Manchin, Sinema and a handful of house dems have made it pretty clear they don't want to vote for the reconciliation bill and won't do it unless they are forced to. If the house votes through the infrastructure bill, then there will be no reason for the centrists to back reconciliation.  So she's basically threatening to shoot down reconciliation no matter what.  The progs might as well deny her what she wants in that case.

I am expecting that Pelosi and Schumer will soon bring out the bazooka.  McConnell is over there in the Senate saying the GOP won't provide any votes to raise the debt ceiling, and if that's true then it cannot be raised outside reconciliation.  So the answer here seems to be to put the debt ceiling into the reconciliation bill and then dare Manchin, Sinema, etc. to vote against it.  Maybe hold a test vote on a clean debt ceiling increase first and watch the republicans filibuster while the stock market crashes to make the stakes a little more real.

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