Democrats Massive Amnesty Prospects Fade with Kyrsten Sinema Opposition to $3.5T Budget
Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) threw a wrench into Democrats plan to slip amnesty for millions of illegal aliens into a federal spending package that would bypass a filibuster and only need a simple majority in the United States Senate.
On Wednesday, Sinema announced that she opposes a $3.5 trillion budget which includes an amnesty for millions of illegal aliens and thus the Senate Democrats do not have the 50 votes necessary to pass the spending package.
Democrats, for months, had hoped to slip the amnesty past Congress without facing opposition from Senate Republicans by using the little-known reconciliation process whereby legislation can be approved with only majority support, bypassing a filibuster, if the Senate Parliamentarian decides the legislation is mostly spending related.