White House: Sinema defection ‘does not change Democratic Senate control’And here we go… did Joe Biden get any heads-up from Kyrsten Sinema that she was about to defect from the Democratic party?
Jean-Pierre:
We do not discuss private conversations that we have with members of Congress.
[But] he sees, and we see, Senator Sinema as a key partner on some of the most historic pieces of legislation that you will all have covered in this administration.
When you look at the past 20 months, from the American rescue plan to the bipartisan infrastructure law, to the inflation reduction act, to the respect for marriage act and also the pact act, all of these pieces of legislation have been historic, and we have partnered with Senator Sinema
We understand her decision to register as an independent in Arizona. The way we see it and understand it, it does not change the new Democratic majority control of the Senate.
And we have every reason to expect that we will continue to work with her successfully.
Source : The Guardian