Election denialism and the Big Lie suffered yet another defeat when, on Monday night, November 14, Arizona’s gubernatorial election was called for Democratic Secretary of State Katie Hobbs. It was a close race, but in the end, Hobbs prevailed over her GOP rival: far-right Big Lie promoter and conspiracy theorist Kari Lake, who campaigned on … Read more
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., heaped praise on Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., Monday after she resisted her party’s calls to reform the filibuster and helped Republicans block much of President Joe Biden’s first-term agenda. The Republican leader appeared alongside Sinema at the McConnell Center at the University of Louisville, touting the Democrat as “extraordinarily … Read more
Breadcrumb Trail Links PMN Business Author of the article: The Associated Press Brian Slodysko Article content WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, the Arizona Democrat who single-handedly thwarted her party’s longtime goal of raising taxes on wealthy investors, received nearly $1 million over the past year from private equity professionals, hedge fund managers and venture … Read more
When the centrist Democratic senator Kyrsten Sinema gave the green light this week to move forward with the much-slimmed-down version of her party’s long-awaited climate and tax bill, her colleagues breathed a sigh of relief. However, Sinema’s assent came with a notable proviso: scrapping the promise to end a notorious tax loophole allowing private equity … Read more
Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., announced on Thursday she would “move forward” on the Democrats’ Inflation Reduction Act after successfully lobbying to strip a tax measure targeting wealthy investors and scale back another tax aimed at big corporations. Sinema, who has stayed mum on her views on the climate and health care deal cut by Sen. … Read more
Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) agreed Thursday night to “move forward” on the Inflation Reduction Act, clearing the way toward a potential passage of the spending bill if another holdout Democrat does not emerge. ‘ Sinema and fellow Democrat Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia were the party’s holdouts on the previous incarnation of the Biden … Read more
Democrats took a big step forward on Joe Biden’s flagship climate, tax and healthcare legislation on Thursday night after Kyrsten Sinema, the Senator from Arizona, expressed support for the plan following days of heated intraparty negotiations. Sinema’s backing was clinched after a last-minute change to the bill introducing a 1 per cent excise tax on … Read more
Samuel Corum/Getty Images News U.S. Senator Kyrsten Sinema said Thursday night that an agreement was reached to remove an increase in taxes on carried interest income in the pending tax and climate plan, potentially resolving a key issue in the effort by Democrat leadership to pass their agenda. “We have agreed to remove the carried … Read more
Sen. Kyrsten Sinema has signaled her opposition to closing a controversial tax loophole that allows carried interest to be taxed as capital gains instead of income, according to multiple reports. As a proposal kicking around the Beltway for more than a decade, closing the carried interest tax loophole has won blessing in the U.S. House … Read more
Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., wants Democrats to drop a measure addressing a tax loophole used by hedge fund managers and private equity executives from Sen. Joe Manchin’s, D-W.Va., climate and health care deal. Sinema is the only Senate Democrat who has not committed to voting for the Inflation Reduction Act, a $740 billion deal cut … Read more