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“What does one call the opposite of ‘array’?” tweeted Liam Donovan drily about the progs-versus-moderates war erupting among Democrats.
Kyrsten Sinema rocked Washington a few hours ago by throwing a wrench into the infrastructure works. The plan all along has been to pass two bills, a bipartisan roads-and-bridges measure that some Republicans would support and a mind-bending multi-trillion-dollar kitchen-sink bill that Democrats would pass via reconciliation on a party-line vote. A price tag of $3.5 trillion had been tossed around for the kitchen-sink bill — until Sinema told lefties this afternoon to forget it.
The message from House progressives this afternoon in response has been clear: Two can play at that game.