Inside Bernie Sanders’ Strategy to Get the Budget Bill Passed
By: Alana Abramson; TIME On a sticky late August afternoon, Senator Bernie Sanders takes the stage in the state that catapulted him from fringe presidential candidate to progressive hero five years ago. One need look no further than the masked audience members to see how much has changed since Sanders last campaigned in Iowa on his two presidential runs in
Bernie Sanders, at a Career Apex, Faces His Biggest Political Test Yet
By: Kevin O’Connor; VT Digger His sound bites for the common good and against corporate greed haven’t changed. But facing the biggest test of his political career, U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., said the stakes had never been higher. The Vermont independent toured his home state this Labor Day weekend in support of a $3.5 trillion budget bill that, if
Back on the Trail, Sanders Campaigns for a Legislative Legacy
By: Emily Cochrane; The New York Times With a khaki-clad leg propped up on a bench, hand on his hip, Senator Bernie Sanders was regaling the post-church Sunday brunch crowd outside a bar with enticing details about Democrats’ emerging $3.5 trillion budget bill. As Meatloaf’s “Paradise by the Dashboard Light” blared in the background, Mr. Sanders, an independent from Vermont,
Sanders Holds Vermont Town Meetings on Budget Proposal
By: The Associated Press Vermont U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders is holding five town meetings around the state over the long Labor Day weekend to talk about the $3.5 trillion federal budget proposal. “If passed, this bill will be the most consequential piece of legislation for working people, the elderly, the children, the sick, and the poor since FDR and the
Five Decades Later, Medicare Might Cover Dental Care
By: Margot Sanger-Kats; The Washington Post Tens of millions of older Americans who cannot afford dental care — with severe consequences for their overall health, what they eat and even when they smile — may soon get help as Democrats maneuver to add dental benefits to Medicare for the first time in its history. The proposal, part of the large
$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
