Kyrsten Sinema Wants to Cut $100 Billion in Proposed Climate Funds, Sources Say

The Arizona senator, who started in politics as an environmentalist, is one of two centrist Democrats who could make or break a spending bill at the center of President Biden’s legislative agenda.

God, I loathe that woman.

Scientists and environmental activists in Arizona say those cuts would end up hurting Ms. Sinema’s constituents.

That's the thing about Sinema. She is not just bipartisan or anti-partisan, she is anti-constituent. You could understand, while still hating him for it, Manchin wanting these cuts, but Sinema, from Arizona?She seems to revel in ignoring her own constituents and doing the opposite of what is in their manifest best interests. There is something wrong with her, her wiring is off or something. 

As one of the nation’s hottest and driest states, Arizona is already on the front lines of the extreme weather that scientists say is worsened by a warming planet. Arizona is gripped in a decades-long megadrought, with 95 percent of the state experiencing severe drought conditions. Since 2012, the state has endured five drought events that caused a total of $22.1 billion in damages, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. This year alone about half a million acres of the state have been consumed by wildfires, and yet many communities were also flooded by monsoons. Across Arizona, there was a record 522 heat-related deaths in 2020, according to the state.