Senator Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., Left, and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer of NY, right, walk out of a budget resolution meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington on Monday, August 9, 2021.
Senator Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., Speaks to reporters as he walks out of a budget resolution meeting with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York at the Capitol in Washington on Monday, August 9 2021.
Senator Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., Left, and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer of NY, right, walk out of a budget resolution meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington on Monday, August 9, 2021.
In this August 3, 2021 photo, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, DN.Y., speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington. Senate Democrats on Monday released a budget resolution that calls for $ 3.5 trillion in spending increases and tax breaks to boost social and environmental programs, setting up a fall battle over domestic policy ambitions by President Joe Biden.
Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, the leading Republican negotiator on the bipartisan infrastructure bill, works from his office on Capitol Hill as he continues to push for the $ 1 trillion legislation on the verge of pass, in Washington, on Monday, August 9, 2021.
Senator Rick Scott, R-Fla., Joined at left by Senator Mike Lee, R-Utah, accuses Senator Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, of contributing to inflation, during ” a press conference at the Capitol in Washington, Monday, August 9, 2021.
Senate Budget Committee Chairman Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., Center, walks towards the Senate floor as the Senate moves from passing the infrastructure bill to focusing on a budget resolution massive $ 3.5 trillion, a blueprint of President Joe Biden’s top domestic policy ambitions, on Capitol Hill in Washington on Tuesday, August 10, 2021.
Left to right, Senator Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., Senator Ron Johnson, R-Wis., And Senator John Kennedy, R-La., Leave a Republican political lunch as the Senate passes passage from the Infrastructure Bill to Focus on a massive $ 3.5 trillion budget resolution, a blueprint for President Joe Biden’s top domestic policy ambitions, on Capitol Hill in Washington on Tuesday, August 10, 2021.
Senate Budget Committee Chairman Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., Arrives as the Senate moves from passing the infrastructure bill to focusing on a massive $ 3.5 trillion budget resolution, a plan of the main domestic political ambitions of President Joe Biden, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, August 10, 2021.
By ALAN FRAM Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) – Democrats on Tuesday began pushing through their sweeping $ 3.5 trillion framework to bolster family services, health and environment programs in the Senate, as Republicans responded with an avalanche amendments aimed at making rivals pay the price in next year’s elections.
Congressional approval of the seemingly assured budget resolution would mark a crucial first step for Democrats towards implementing the core of President Joe Biden’s national agenda. That would open the door for a follow-up action to get the government’s fiscal power to help families, create jobs and tackle climate change, with higher taxes for the rich and big corporations paying a large chunk of money. the bill.
Senate Budget Committee Chairman Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., Once a progressive voice in the congressional wilderness and now a national figure with legislative clout, said the measure would help children, families, seniors and workers – and would do even more.
“It will also, I hope, restore the faith of the American people in the belief that we can have a government that works for all of us, not just a few,” he said.
Republicans argued that the Democrats’ proposals would waste money, raise economically damaging taxes, fuel inflation, and codify far-left diktats that hurt Americans. They were happy to use Sanders, a self-proclaimed Democratic socialist, to try to tar all Democrats backing the measure.
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