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By: Greg Sargent and Paul Waldman; Washington Post   Earlier this summer, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) met with civil society leaders from Brazil who warned that President Jair Bolsonaro might not accept a loss in elections set for October. This has been widely discussed in international media, and Sanders came away from the meeting convinced that it’s not just idle

By: Lexi McMenamin; TeenVogue The weekend that the Senate passed the Inflation Reduction Act – itself a reined-in version of President Biden’s proposed Build Back Better Act – during a marathon voting session, while most Senate Democrats were preemptively ready to celebrate the bill’s passage, there was a notable naysayer amongst them. Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT), the former presidential candidate, spent the voting

By: Bob Audette; Brattleboro Reformer   BRATTLEBORO — A health care provider that has clinics in Rockingham, Londonderry and Ludlow hopes to expand into Brattleboro. “There’s not a federally qualified health center in the region of Brattleboro,” said Josh Dufresne, CEO of North Star Health, formerly known as Springfield Medical Care Systems. A federally qualified health center is a health care practice that

By: Asma Khalid, Kelsey Snell, and Maria Liasson; NPR In an interview with NPR, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said he stood by his characterization earlier this summer that his colleague Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) sabotaged President Biden’s agenda. “I don’t think it’s debatable,” he said, adding that that he felt Manchin had “his own agenda” when negotiating with the administration

By: Lauren Gambino; The Guardian As Democrats celebrate the long-sought passage of Joe Biden’s sweeping health, climate and economic package, Bernie Sanders is not ready to declare victory. Instead, the Vermont senator is sounding the alarm that Congress has failed to meet the moment, with potentially grave consequences for American democracy. “We are living in enormously difficult times,” he said in

By: Kelsey Snell; NPR The House votes Friday to give final congressional approval to a package of climate, health care and tax measures that Democrats have been negotiating for over a year. AILSA CHANG, HOST: The House voted today to give final passage to the Inflation Reduction Act. The roughly $700 billion legislation cleared Congress without a single Republican vote