The progressive response to President Biden's State of the Union address Tuesday blasted 'corporate Democrats' for blocking the Build Back Better package last year.
And Sinema, who recently left the Democratic Party to be an Independent, failed to ever signal support for the bill. Following Manchin's remarks on the legislation being"dead," Sinema privately concurred, Axios reported in April.the Inflation Reduction Act, a slimmed down nearly $800 billion climate and tax package authored by Manchin and signed into law by Biden in August.
President Biden had tried for months to convince Sens. Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema to sign onto his Build Back Better legislation. In addition to her comments criticizing efforts to oppose Build Back Better last year, Ramirez repeatedly slammed Republicans over their economic agenda in her speech Tuesday evening.
"What I want to say to President Biden and all my fellow Democrats in Congress is that we have two jobs," Ramirez said."We must stand up to the extremism of the MAGA Republicans. We have to show working people what Democrats will deliver for working families if they put us in control.""If Republicans in the majority are as interested in working class families as they claim, they’ll stand with us," she continued.
The Illinois Democrat also advocated for immigration reform, increased access to abortion and end to qualified immunity for police officers in light of the death of Tyre Nichols in Memphis, Tennessee.Get the latest updates from the 2024 campaign trail, exclusive interviews and more Fox News politics content.
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