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Kyrsten Sinema Wants Drug Companies to be Able to Extort You.
The Arizona Senator is absolutely shameless, and is rewarded handsomely for it.
It’s sort of incredible, isn’t it, how Kyrsten Sinema still — after everything she has pulled in the short time that President Biden has been in office — still manages to get worse? As negotiations intensify surrounding the budget reconciliation bill and the smooth passage of the infrastructure bill, Sinema has not been shy about her desire to deliver for her corporate donors no matter the consequence to her party or most importantly, the American people overall.
Igor Derysh with Salon writes:
“Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, the controversial Arizona Democrat who threatens to derail President Biden’s legislative agenda, received more than $750,000 in donations from the pharmaceutical and medical device industries. After that, she announced her opposition to a Democratic plan to lower prescription drug costs. Sinema told White House officials that she opposes House and Senate bills that would allow Medicare to negotiate drug costs, sources told Politico this week. Democrats estimate these bills would save $450 billion over the next decade and thereby pay for a large portion of President Joe Biden’s $3.5 trillion spending plan. The budget bill would expand child care…
