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Mark Kelly, up for re-election, on Biden Title 42 move:
“It’s obvious that there's not a plan in place … It’s a national security issue..It's a public health issue as well — not only for people in communities on the southern border, but for migrants. We need an orderly process”
www.politico.com
more excerpts:
He helped sink one of Joe Biden’s labor nominees, pushed the president to open new drilling in the Gulf of Mexico and hammered the administration over lifting pandemic-era restrictions on the southern border.
No, it’s not a Republican. It’s Mark Kelly.
Though Democrats are used to Sinema and Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) bucking them, Kelly’s vote against David Weil to be wage administrator for the Labor Department shocked party leaders, according to one Democratic senator supportive of the nomination.
Now Kelly is doing more than taking down Weil, publicly protesting Biden’s border policy and pushing alongside Manchin for more fossil fuel exploration. He’s also raising concerns about Biden’s ambassador to India nominee Eric Garcetti and calling for a gas tax holiday.
Kelly explained his opposition to Weil as fairly simple: that his constituents, particularly business owners, had concerns about the nominee. “He just didn’t seem like a good fit for the job,” the senator said of the failed pick.
Kelly, Manchin and Sinema all voted against Weil’s nomination on the floor — the first Biden pick to be defeated so publicly. But Kelly’s vote especially is drawing plenty of scrutiny among progressives.
“He’s been hostile to working class issues,” said Faiz Shakir, Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-Vt.) adviser and 2020 campaign manager, referring to pro-union efforts in Congress and in Kelly’s state. “You’d have a hard time convincing me that being on the correct side of these issues is somehow detrimental to winning a statewide election in Arizona. Draw your own conclusions about what’s going on there.”
“It’s obvious that there's not a plan in place … It’s a national security issue..It's a public health issue as well — not only for people in communities on the southern border, but for migrants. We need an orderly process”
Mark Kelly's breaks with Biden pile up
The other Arizona Democrat has started drawing ire from progressives as he distances himself from his own party on border and economic policies.
www.politico.com
more excerpts:
He helped sink one of Joe Biden’s labor nominees, pushed the president to open new drilling in the Gulf of Mexico and hammered the administration over lifting pandemic-era restrictions on the southern border.
No, it’s not a Republican. It’s Mark Kelly.
Though Democrats are used to Sinema and Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) bucking them, Kelly’s vote against David Weil to be wage administrator for the Labor Department shocked party leaders, according to one Democratic senator supportive of the nomination.
Now Kelly is doing more than taking down Weil, publicly protesting Biden’s border policy and pushing alongside Manchin for more fossil fuel exploration. He’s also raising concerns about Biden’s ambassador to India nominee Eric Garcetti and calling for a gas tax holiday.
Kelly explained his opposition to Weil as fairly simple: that his constituents, particularly business owners, had concerns about the nominee. “He just didn’t seem like a good fit for the job,” the senator said of the failed pick.
Kelly, Manchin and Sinema all voted against Weil’s nomination on the floor — the first Biden pick to be defeated so publicly. But Kelly’s vote especially is drawing plenty of scrutiny among progressives.
“He’s been hostile to working class issues,” said Faiz Shakir, Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-Vt.) adviser and 2020 campaign manager, referring to pro-union efforts in Congress and in Kelly’s state. “You’d have a hard time convincing me that being on the correct side of these issues is somehow detrimental to winning a statewide election in Arizona. Draw your own conclusions about what’s going on there.”
