Kyrsten Sinema agrees to compromise on inflation bill

Sen. Kyrsten Sinema agreed Thursday night to “move forward” with her fellow Democrats on the scaled-back Inflation Reduction Act that another holdout Democrat, Sen. Joe Manchin, agreed to last week. The Arizona Democrat’s approval of the $739 billion health care, climate and deficit-reduction package was contingent on allocating 40% of its spending to deficit reduction, and came after she was courted by lawmakers on both sides of the aisle ahead of the Senate’s summer recess next week.-- More...