$3.5T or bust? Sanders goes all-out to protect Dems’ social spending plans
By: Burgess Everett; Politico “The truth is we need more,” the Vermont senator said in an interview, adding this is “the minimum of what we should be spending.” Bernie Sanders is shifting into a new phase of his legacy-defining work on Democrats’ $3.5 trillion spending plan: Protecting it from members of his own party and selling it to the
Bernie Sanders’s Third Campaign
By: John Nichols; The Nation Bernie Sanders does not want to be mistaken for an optimist. “I’m a glass-half-empty kind of guy,” he grumbles, as he works his way through the stacks of budget documents that are strewn across the desk in his spartan office on the third floor of a 123-year-old red-brick building on the north end of downtown
Bernie Sanders lost his fight to be president. But now he’s written a budget that could secure his legacy.
By: Mike DeBonis; The Washington Post He may have made a boldface impression on recent American politics, but after 30 years in Congress, Sen. Bernie Sanders has struggled with the criticism that his legislative impact has been written in fine print — an amendment here, a symbolic vote there and many, many speeches. But not, perhaps, for long: Sanders, just
Senate passes budget resolution after months of push from Sanders
By: Grace Benninghoff; VT Digger Wednesday’s Senate passage of a $3.5 trillion spending plan is seen by congressional experts as further evidence of Vermont independent Sen. Bernie Sanders’ shift from “rebel with a cause” outsider to leading Democratic deal-maker. “If 10 years ago somebody would have said to you that Bernie Sanders was a team player, you would have been
At the fringe no more: Bernie Sanders muses on historic budget bill and the hurdles ahead
By: Susan Page; USA Today Bernie Sanders stands at the fringe no more. The quirky independent from Vermont, once seen as more likely to lead a protest than pass a law, was at center stage early Wednesday when the Senate approved a historic $3.5 trillion budget blueprint. If congressional Democrats can hold together – and that is no small “if” – Sanders will have been one
Sanders to co-sponsor bill seeking $500 billion in fees from big polluting companies
By: Riley Robinson; VT Digger Fossil fuel companies should pay damages for the emissions they caused, 13 Vermont advocacy groups said in an open letter to the state’s congressional delegation. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., has made a similar argument before, and he’s now set to cosponsor draft legislation by Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., to establish the Polluters Pay Climate
