On Thursday night, as President JOE BIDEN boarded Marine One, he made some news. First, he reiterated that immigration reform shouldbe included in the reconciliation bill. Its a position hes staked out before Sarah Ferris, Burgess Everett and Laura Barrn-Lpez first reported the White House supported the approach July 15 but this is the first weve heard about it since there was movement on the bipartisan infrastructure framework. (Worth remembering: For this to happen, Dems would need a favorable ruling from the Senate parliamentarian, which hasnt happened yet.) Then, Biden said that Sen. KYRSTEN SINEMA (D-Ariz.) who said Wednesday that she would not support a $3.5 trillion reconciliation bill is on board for passing [reconciliation] if in fact she sees all the pieces of it. Thats why she allowed the budget to go forward. Speaking of which CANT STOP, WONT STOP SINEMAS SUMMER Sinema is not letting BIFor the reconciliation bill get in the way of her summer plans. When CHUCK SCHUMERannounced earlier this month that he might keep the Senate in session into August delaying a previously scheduled recess in order to shepherd the two gigantic bills through the chamber Sinema told the majority leader that she was not sticking around to vote, multiple Senate sources tell Playbook. She had prior vacation plans, she said, and wasnt about to let the infrastructure or reconciliation bills get in the way.
In fairness, Sinema isstaying in D.C. this weekend to work instead of attending one previously scheduled event: a wine retreat fundraiser at Sonomas ritzy MacArthur Place Hotel & Spa, where summer rates hover around $950 per night. (Wine is kind of Sinemas thing. Last August, she held a three-week internship at Three Sticks Winery in Sonoma, for which the senator was paid an entry-level salary of $1,117.40.)
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