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By: Eliza Collins, The Wall Street Journal WASHINGTON—Bernie Sanders has pushed Congress for decades to expand the social safety net and fight climate change, with limited success. Now, with Democrats on the brink of finalizing such a package, the Vermont senator must decide how much is enough. The party is currently locked in negotiations over winnowing down a $3.5 trillion education, healthcare,

By: Grace Segers, The New Republic The Vermont Senator rues the failure to pass Biden’s big social spending bill. “That was transformational. And we came within two votes of doing that.” “The world today faces enormous crises,” Senator Bernie Sanders began. I had asked the Vermont independent how he would characterize two years of the razor-thin 50-seat Democratic majority. My

By: Alex J. Rouhandeh; Newsweek The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released an estimate on Monday that the Biden administration’s executive action on student loan forgiveness could cost the country $400 billion over the next 30 years. Since then, Republicans have ramped up their criticism of the Biden plan. Senator Richard Burr of North Carolina, the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions

WCAX News BURLINGTON, Vt. (WCAX) – The Senate voted Tuesday to move forward with a stop-gap bill needed to keep the federal government running past Friday, leaving out a controversial oil and gas permitting reform measure that had split Vermont’s congressional delegation. The measure had included energy permitting reforms supported by Sen. Joe Manchin, D-West Virginia, that were opposed by

By: Brett Wilkins; Common Dreams “It is important for the people of Brazil to know we’re on their side, on the side of democracy,” said Sen. Bernie Sanders. “With passage of this resolution, we are sending that message.” With just four days to go until the first round of Brazil’s presidential contest, a pair of U.S. senators on Wednesday hailed the

By: Brett Wilkins; Common Dreams “In the richest country on Earth, the time is long overdue for us to create a government and an economy that works for all of us, not just the 1%.” U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders reacted Wednesday to new government figures showing the wealthiest 1% of Americans now owns over one-third of the country’s wealth by reasserting