A new act for Bernie Sanders: Power broker
By: Evan Halper; Los Angeles Times As control of the Senate teetered early this year, Republicans warned of a menace they feared would be unleashed on America if they lost power: Bernie Sanders would call the shots over the federal budget. The reality for them may be even worse than they anticipated. The longtime outsider, irritant of the Democratic and Republican establishments and cantankerous gadfly
Bernie Sanders Refuses to Give up on $15 Minimum Wage: ‘We Are Developing a Strategy’
By: Brendan Cole; Newsweek Vermont senator Bernie Sanders has said that he would not back down in his quest to raise the federal minimum wage despite legislative setbacks in the Senate. Sanders, who chairs the Senate budget committee, is broadly happy with the $1.9 trillion stimulus package agreed on Saturday, telling CNN it was “the most significant legislation for working
Sanders calls $1.9T COVID relief plan most significant bill in decades
By: Calvin Cutler; WCAX BURLINGTON, Vt. (WCAX) – Vermont is slated to get a lot of money from the $1.9 trillion rescue plan approved by the Senate. And we’re following the money for you. So how much are we talking about and how exactly is the money going to be spent? About $1.3 billion in the form of stimulus checks,
Sen. Bernie Sanders: COVID relief bill ‘addresses the crises facing working families’
PBS News For perspective on COVID relief and the congressional agenda we turn to Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who chairs the Senate’s budget committee. He joins Judy Woodruff to discuss the minimum wage, the Republican response to President Biden’s agenda, and the need for federal aid for local and state governments during the pandemic. You can watch the
Sanders vows to force vote on $15 minimum wage
By: Alexander Bolton; The Hill Senate Budget Committee Chairman Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) says Democrats should “ignore” the recent ruling of the Senate parliamentarian and is vowing to force the Senate to vote this week on an amendment to set the federal minimum wage at $15 an hour. Sanders on Monday declared he would not back down on his signature wage initiative after
Bernie Sanders: US sick of subsidizing ‘starvation wages’ at Walmart and McDonalds
By: Dominic Rushe; The Guardian US taxpayers should not be “forced to subsidize some of the largest and most profitable corporations in America”, Bernie Sanders told a Senate hearing on Thursday. As Congress debates the first rise in the minimum wage in over a decade, the Vermont senator said he had “talked to too many workers in this country who, with tears
