The Senate Budget Committee's new chair is an unabashed progressive and self-described democratic socialist prepared to be as "aggressive" as he possibly can with budget tactics to help Democrats and President-elect Joe Biden enact their sweeping agenda.
Under a narrow Democratic majority in the Senate, Bernie Sanders will oversee budget and spending work, including the procedural power of budget reconciliation the majority can use to evade the filibuster and pass massive bills without a single Republican vote.
‘Aggressive’: Bernie Sanders on his big plans as Budget chair
(Score: 3, Insightful) by fustakrakich on Wednesday January 20 2021, @10:31PM
They can finance it by reversing the Reagan/Bush/Trump tax cuts... Will he go that far? I have doubts [bloomberg.com]