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By: Alexandra Garrett; Newsweek Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont pressured President-elect Joe Biden for $2,000 stimulus checks in a tweet Wednesday. “With Democrats in control of the Senate, we must keep faith with the working families of this country,” Sanders said. “Promises made must be kept.” “That means not only the $2,000 direct payment but an aggressive agenda that recognizes the economic desperation facing so many

By: WCAX News Team; WCAX WASHINGTON (WCAX) – For the second day in a row, Senator Bernie Sanders Thursday pushed for sending $2,000 in direct relief payments to Americans despite Majority Leader Mitch McConnell saying there is “no realistic path” to pass a stand-alone bill. McConnell has said he is opposed to the idea, saying many Americans haven’t been economically affected

By: David Sirota; Jacobin For most of the last few decades, budget standoffs in Washington tended to follow the same script: Republicans threatened to block some domestic spending bill or fully shut down the government unless Democrats agreed to let the GOP own the libs with something bad like a JPMorgan giveaway, a tax break for the rich, or a draconian cut to

By: Ian Millhiser; Vox In just over three weeks, Donald Trump will no longer be president, but he’s spent his last month in office sowing discord. His latest chaos muppetry — a demand that Congress increase the latest round of stimulus checks from $600 to $2,000 — has now given Democrats a slim chance to deliver more aid to Americans. And, barring that,

By: Jacob Jarvis, Newsweek Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VM) has vowed to push for more COVID-19 relief in January, including a third round of stimulus checks, after insisting the latest agreement does “not go anywhere near far enough.” The fresh package includes $600 direct payments, but Sanders had pushed for another round of $1,200 checks. “While including these payments ultimately improved this bill, given the

By: John Nichols, The Nation This Q&A was excerpted from an hour-long conversation between Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders and Nation National Affairs Correspondent John Nichols during the first-ever Nation Festival. Access the full video archive of the Nation Festival now, including this interview. Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders joined the first-ever Nation Festival in mid-November, along with Prime Minister Katrín Jakobsdóttir of Iceland, author Naomi Klein, Black Lives Matter cofounder Alicia