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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: 1) by fustakrakich on Thursday January 21 2021, @06:04PM

    by fustakrakich (6150) on Thursday January 21 2021, @06:04PM (#1103421) Journal

    Yes, those industries are also being propped up. All that money could be going for infrastructure, and payroll/pension protection, and including medical, instead it's going into the bureaucratic financial industry, while we hear talk of raising taxes for covid relief.

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