Despite the White House's best efforts to revive a scaled-down version of President Biden's domestic agenda centerpiece - known as 'Build Back Better' - it looks like the talks have been nipped in the bud. But instead of Joe Manchin pulling the plug, this time around, that honor belongs to Arizona's Kyrsten Sinema.

Axios reported last night that Sinema has told donors that it's "unlikely" the BBB plan envisioned by the White House will come to fruition. That's despite the fact that the Administration left an opening in its 2023 budget proposal to accommodate whatever deal Democrats managed to strike.

Previously, the word around Capitol Hill was that Congress would vote on a slimmed-down iteration of BBB before Memorial Day. Unfortunately for the Dems, the party would need the support of both Sinema and Manchin to push any package through the Senate.