Former Independent Arizona Sen. Kirsten Cinema, a former Democrat, has a final laugh at the former Democrat colleague’s attempts to end the filibuster.
Sinema torched several far-left Congressional Democrats for hypocrisy against the filibuster for the majority of Senate Democrats who tried to tank government funding bills that passed the Senate in a series of posts on X on Saturday. Cinema was a fierce advocate for the Filibuster during her time as a senator, pariahing her among her Democratic colleagues and won formal denunciation from the Arizona Democrats. (Related: James Kerrville says he says “dem donors” and “the party needs to stop pulling “stunts” against Trump)
The Filibuster requires the Senate to have 60 votes to advance most laws. Former Presidents Joe Biden and Barak Obama They call the Senate’s rules of procedural “relics of the Jim Crow era.”
Cinema and the former Democrat joined West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin and rejected an attempt from Senator majority leader Chuck Schumer, losing the vote in January 2022 in a 48-52 vote.
House Democrats, including California’s Locanna officials and New York’s Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, couldn’t stop Mike Johnson from passing government funding bills primarily along the party. Called Senate Democrats will filibuster spending bills to stop the legislation moving forward on President Donald Trump’s desk. They’ve been Called for Repeal of the Senate’s procedural rules when Democrats had a government triple.
“Once again, I point out that the Senate has repeatedly requested to eliminate the very tools it is currently using to stop Trump,” Cinema said. I wrote it X In response to a post from Kanna on Sunday morning, a former Arizona senator criticized him for using the filibuster to fight partisan law while in office. “Don’t take rocket science to see blatant hypocrisy here.”
“I see the change in the heart of the Filibuster” Cinema I wrote it In a tweet trolling Ocasio-Cortez on Saturday. Ocasio-Cortez previously labeled Sinema as a “Dem obstructionist” and opposed to abolishing the Filibuster, so he called for her to be Primary. Nevertheless, the brand of democratic fire Proposal of Senate Democrats filibustered the GOP spending bill and added Senate Democrats as Schumer and nine additional Senate Democrats voted for the law to avoid partial government shutdowns.
Not yet.
In fact, the same dems claiming to maintain a filibuster “when needed” doesn’t actually use it when needed.
Used only to block DEM policies. Do not block harmful GOPs.
We may have proved wrong. Instead, they proved the points. https://t.co/f0d3juppg5l
– Alexandria Ocasio Cortez (@AOC) March 15, 2025
Cinema will face Ocasio-Cortez for the second time on Sunday after New York lawmakers Claim Senate Democrats never use a policy that uses filibusters to “block harmful GOPs.”
Senate Democrats have used filibuster three times in 2025, blocking laws banning transgender athletes in women’s sports, sanctioning international criminal court officials, and protecting the rights of babies during failed abortions, as Sinema noted on Sunday morning.
Senate Republicans pointed to the cynicism of Senate Democrats leading and unifying the GOP Act when Biden was president and Schumer earlier tried to repeal procedural rules when he controlled the Senate. (Related: “Pure Courage Moment”: Scott Jennings growls as Schumer joins Republicans to defeat the “Jim Crow” filibuster)
“I’ve forgotten, Mr. President, the rules are different for Democrats,” Sen. John Tune said on the Senator’s floor on Feb. 18.
Rather than voting for the GOP spending bill on Friday, Senate Democrats voted to use filibusters to shut down the government. All 38 of these senators vote In January 2022, we campaigned to either abolish the Filibuster or end the procedural rules.
“Yes, hypocrisy is the key” Cinema I wrote it In a tweet in response to users pointing out Senate Democrat flip-flops on the Filibuster.
Cinema’s Congressional Democrat takedown has earned praise from Senate Republicans who praised the Filibuster’s defense while serving in the Senate.
“@kyrstensinema @kyrstensinema Republican Texas Sen. John Cornyn when she holds receipts on d filibister hypocrisy I wrote it X Saturday.
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