Exclusive: Sinema won't commit to voting for Biden's sweeping social safety net expansion
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Kyrsten Sinema, the influential moderate Democratic senator from Arizona, did not commit to voting for President Joe Biden's sweeping social safety net legislation in a sit-down interview with CNN on Thursday, the latest sign that Senate Democrats do not yet have the votes to pass one of the party's top legislative priorities even as leadership hopes to approve the measure before Christmas.
Sinema indicated she plans to continue negotiating over the bill. Asked if she is prepared to vote "yes" when the legislation, known as the Build Back Better Act, comes to the Senate floor, Sinema would not say.
"I am always prepared to vote and to vote for what's right for the interests of Arizona," she said.
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