Sinema and Manchin have both been targeted by demonstrators in recent weeks over their recalcitrance on Biden’s agenda.
Sinema around the Arizona State University campus – including into the bathroom – on Saturday.
The protesters at the fundraiser chanted for Sinema to support the Build Back Better Act, a proposed $3.5 trillion bill to fund social programs like Medicare and the Child Tax Credit, which Sinema has sought to shrink. At ASU, Sinema was urged to support a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants as part of the package after multiple proposed immigration provisions in the bill wereSinema has taken heat not only from activists, but colleagues as well, with progressive Rep. Ro Khanna
that her lack of clear, public demands and general unwillingness to speak to the press make it difficult to negotiate with her.Activists have upped their appeals to Sinema and fellow moderate Sen. Joe Manchin in recent weeks. Members of progressive West Virginia groups and the environmental justice organization Greenpeace staged “flotilla” protests outside Manchin’s houseboat in Washington, D.C.
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