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Senate Budget Committee Chairman Bernie Sanders

Journal by DeathMonkey

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

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 21 2021, @02:08AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 21 2021, @02:08AM (#1103227)

    keeping uppity progressives hope-roped

    Do not worry. In the final analysis, the proles will soon draw the necessary conclusions and being pursuing a Marxist-Globohomoist program.