The Senator from Vermont might not be the President…
But at 79, older than Biden and Trump, he’s out working Republican country to get something dear to his heart…
And increase in the Social Safety net for Americans….
He IS the Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee courtesy of the Democrat’s whose party he does not belong to….The two pieces of legislation go thru ‘his’ committee….
Sanders IS taking it to the people…..
Before sitting down with his family to finish eating, one man wondered aloud about something else entirely: Less than a year after the end of the 2020 presidential campaign season and with the midterm elections looming, what was Mr. Sanders doing in Iowa?
“I am chairman of the Senate Budget Committee,” replied Mr. Sanders, a veteran of two unsuccessful bids for the presidency. “And I am here to explain what the hell is in the budget for the American people.”
Just a few days shy of his 80th birthday, Mr. Sanders was back on the campaign trail last week, trekking across Republican-leaning districts in the Midwest to cap off a blitz of local television interviews and opinion essays placed in traditionally conservative news outlets.
But this time, instead of pursuing a higher political office, he was campaigning for a legislative legacy: a $3.5 trillion package that, if passed, would amount to the most significant expansion of the social safety net since the Great Society of the 1960s.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California and Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, the majority leader, rallied every Democrat in Congress last month behind the budget blueprint, which sets the stage for them to push through ambitious initiatives to address climate change, provide funding for paid family leave, child care and education benefits, and increase taxes on the wealthy — all on a party-line vote.
But it is Mr. Sanders who will oversee the drafting of the legislation in the Senate, which Democrats plan to steer through Congress using fast-track budget reconciliation rules, which shield it from a filibuster but will require the support of every Democrat in the Senate and nearly every Democrat in the House. Committee leaders hope to finish their work on the enormous bill by Sept. 15. The process will not be easy, given the need for party unity and the strict rules that limit what can be included in reconciliation bills.
Among the steepest challenges will be persuading conservative-leaning Democrats, such as Senators Joe Manchin III of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona, to drop their reservations about the plan’s cost and support it…..
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Bernie is the Modern Day Eugene V Debbs…never won a Presidential Election, but is always focused on mission…Bernie Arguably has been able to do more with his political career then Debbs…and he is proving it now…Don’t matter what Party he claims or doesn’t claim, he is working to get it done, let’s hope his push is strong enough…he needs to bring it to Arizona and West Virginia to get two stubborn Democrats from tanking it…and wherever else the 10 H of R resistance is from…
The man HAS BEEN on. Mission…..
What a nonsensical post. It is something I would expect from James or some other notorious liar and hater. Comparing Sanders to Debs is like comparing Reagan to Hitler. Regardless of what one might think of Reagan, (and I was no fan), he never deserved a comparison to Hitler.
Debs was enormously more radical than what Sanders ever was. Debs didn’t consider himself an American and he didn’t even believe in the concept of countries. Sanders believes in Democracy, and he never sympathized with criminals and never advocated for things like open borders.
If any intelligent person were to read some quotes from Debs, they would know immediately that he is a far, far, far more radical than anything close to what Sanders ever was.
The only similarity is that Both embraced the term “socialism”. But what each meant by that term was enormously different,