Kyrsten Sinema responds to Democrats admitting filibuster will help them stop Trump agenda: 'Schadenfreude'

Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, I-Ariz., connected Monday appeared to poke amusive astatine Senate Democrats for coming retired successful enactment of the filibuster aft her erstwhile enactment had called for it to beryllium abolished implicit the past 4 years to propulsion done Democratic docket items.

Sinema, who near the Democratic Party astir 2 years ago, responded connected the societal media level X to a study by the Washington Examiner citing Democratic senators who present accidental they enactment the Senate filibuster to artifact President-elect Trump's docket successful his 2nd administration.

"Please, please, delight halt what you’re doing and work these quotes," Sinema said.

"Filing under: schadenfreude," she continued.

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Senator Kyrsten Sinema, an autarkic from Arizona, during an interrogation connected Capitol Hill successful Washington, D.C. connected Thursday, May 18, 2023. (Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Sinema and West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin, who has besides near the enactment to go an independent, were the 2 then-Democrats who opposed eliminating the filibuster during the Biden medication erstwhile Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., attempted to abolish it successful 2022, though helium was unsuccessful without the enactment of Sinema and Manchin successful a razor-thin bulk for Democrats.

Both autarkic senators did not tally for re-election and volition beryllium leaving the Senate successful January.

In August, Schumer told the New York Post that Sinema and Manchin are "both gone" successful 2025 erstwhile asked if helium would marque different effort to destruct the filibuster.

After the election, Schumer pleaded with Republicans to prioritize bipartisanship.

"I connection a connection of caution successful bully faith: Take attraction not to misread the volition of the people, and bash not wantonness the request for bipartisanship," Schumer said.

Earlier this month, Sinama responded to Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., who said she would not enactment eliminating the filibuster present that the GOP volition power the House, Senate and White House, but would person supported it if Democrats had the trifecta.

"You don't say?" Sinema wrote connected X.

The study from the Washington Examiner quotes respective Senate Democrats, including Sens. Dick Durbin, D-Ill; Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii; Chris Murphy, D-Conn., and Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., who each expressed enactment for maintaining the filibuster to halt Trump-backed legislation.

Sen. Kyrsten Sinema speaks alongside Sen. Chris Murphy with reporters successful the U.S. Capitol Building connected December 20, 2023, successful Washington, D.C. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

"I'd beryllium lying if I said we'd beryllium successful a amended presumption without the filibuster," Blumenthal said. "We person a work to halt autocratic and long-headed maltreatment of powerfulness oregon policy, and we’ll usage immoderate tools we person available. We're not going to combat this conflict with 1 manus tied down our back."

Durbin said helium views the filibuster arsenic "part of the calculation" connected however Democrats volition resist Republican bills successful the adjacent Congress successful which the GOP volition clasp a 53-47 bulk successful the Upper Chamber.

"We had to unrecorded with it erstwhile we were successful the majority," helium said.

Schatz said: "I'm going to effort not to marque a messiness of my presumption connected this one."

The Hawaii politician antecedently slammed the "unprecedented maltreatment of the filibuster by Republicans" during the Obama medication arsenic helium backed reforms.

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Sen. Kyrsten Sinema speaks to reporters astatine the U.S. Capitol connected February 5, 2024, successful Washington, D.C. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

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"You play with the rules that exist," Murphy said, adding that helium is unfastened to changes but not to "obliterate" the filibuster, which helium criticized successful 2021 arsenic "downright dangerous," a "slap successful the look to majoritarianism" and an "argument that fundamentally prioritizes consistency implicit democracy."

Incoming Senate GOP Leader John Thune, R-S.D., precocious said that the filibuster volition beryllium "safe nether Republican control," adjacent if it blocks Trump's agenda.

"I find it ironic that a enactment that has spent a just magnitude of clip this predetermination rhythm talking astir the value of preserving our ideology seems intent connected embracing the thoroughly undemocratic conception that lone 1 enactment should beryllium making decisions successful this country," Thune said.