MISSION, Texas — Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey expects Democratic Sen. Kyrsten Sinema to give in to far-left liberal wishes and vote in support of congressional Democrats’ proposed social spending bill.
“She’s a politician, so of course she’s going to cave,” Ducey told the Washington Examiner in an interview Wednesday afternoon.
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The Biden administration is pushing a spending plan that socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont and others want to cost up to $3.5 trillion, part of President Joe Biden’s “Build Back Better” agenda. With a price tag that has centrist Democrats skeptical, the proposal would significantly expand the federal budget for social programs and anti-climate change efforts.
Because Republicans oppose the bill, Democrats are trying to pass it unilaterally with only their party, which would require every senator to back it.
Sinema and West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin are the only two holdouts, and liberal activists have gone after Sinema, targeting her in a bathroom and through an airport. Sinema was furious following the bathroom incident.
“It is the duty of elected leaders to avoid fostering an environment in which honestly-held policy disagreements serve as the basis for vitriol — raising the temperature in political rhetoric and creating a permission structure for unacceptable behavior,” Sinema said in a statement.
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Ducey said he still has no plans to run for Senate despite pushes from Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and other Republicans.
