The retiring Arizona Independent talked to Semafor about her reputation as an ‘enigma’ and her Senate legacy after a productive, if polarizing, six years.
When Donald Trump enters office on Jan. 20, he will immediately start seizing control of the government by firing holdovers from Joe Biden’s administration and replacing them with Republican partisans.
Sinema’s lavish spending has become part of a complicated legacy that the senator will leave behind when she exits office in early January. As she evolved from a political progressive to a business friendly Independent, her critics portrayed her as someone guided by personal financial gain who does the bidding of billionaires.
Sinema made history for Democrats, then took a moderate approach that left them disappointed and the Senate more divided.
The court announced Thursday that it had overturned a decision by Judge Scott McAfee allowing Willis to remain on the case after she faced accusations of having an improper relationship with Nathan Wade, her special prosecutor. McAfee said Willis could remain on the case if she cut ties with Wade.
In her first senate vote in weeks, Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema helped tank President Biden's nominee to secure a Democrat-majority on the National Labor Relations Board.
Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman drew ire from critics after saying he was "not rooting against" Donald Trump, adding that the president-elect had "political talent that's undeniable." In an interview on ABC's This Week on Sunday,
Senator Kyrsten Sinema, with the help of her buddy Joe Manchin, took one final chance to help out Republicans and give them control of the NLRB.
Had Manchin and Sinema gone along, it would have given Democrats a majority on the powerful panel for at least the first two years of President-elect Donald Trump’s term. Now, Trump will get two picks on the five-member panel and put Republicans back in control after four years of Democratic majority.
Kyrsten Sinema will leave office in January as an ... lost the GOP in the age of President Donald Trump. Once, Sinema seemed to define much of whatever was possible in Washington, D.C. “She ...
After Donald Trump won the presidency and Republicans claimed the Senate, Kyrsten Sinema got an unexpected message about her insistence on protecting the filibuster. “One person reached out to ...
This week we saw a sad but, I suppose, predictable end to the political career of Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema.