Sanders Looks to Shoot Down Bezos’ Moon Plans
By Bryan Bender; POLITICO Jeff Bezos’s space company is back in the running to return NASA astronauts to the moon, but Sen. Bernie Sanders wants him to do it without using taxpayer money. Blue Origin got a second chance last week to compete for a contract to develop a lunar lander after it lost out to rival Elon Musk’s SpaceX last year. But as
White House studies options on gas prices as Sanders pushes profits tax
By Jeff Stein, The Washington Post The White House is studying a range of potential responses to rising gas prices as top Democrats in Congress push the administration to embrace a new tax on large corporate profits ahead of the 2022 midterm elections. With the price of gas jumping after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and remaining high, Biden administration officials
Bernie Sanders Calls for the Cancellation of All Medical Debt
By Sharon Zhang, Truthout Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) called for medical debt to be abolished on Monday in response to news that the country’s three largest credit agencies will be removing paid-off medical debt from credit reports. Experian, Equifax and TransUnion announced last week that credit reports will no longer include medical debt that went to collections after it’s been paid off.
Sanders Tells Starbucks CEO to Stop Union Busting and “Obey the Law”
By Shron Zhang, Truthout As former CEO Howard Schultz takes the helm once again at Starbucks, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) has demanded that the company “do the right thing” and allow employees to exercise their legal right to organize. On Tuesday, Sanders wrote a letter to Schultz demanding that the company step out of the way of unionizing workers. He emphasized that
Sanders Vows to Reintroduce Medicare for All as Biden Extends Privatization Ploy
By Jake Johnson, Common Dreams Sen. Bernie Sanders on Sunday said he intends to reintroduce Medicare for All legislation in the U.S. Senate in the coming days as the Biden administration moves ahead with a Medicare privatization scheme and millions of Americans remain at imminent risk of losing their insurance once pandemic protections expire. “In the midst of the current set of horrors
Sanders applauds $740M in housing funds
By Sue Allen, The Bennington Banner WASHINGTON — Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) applauded the Federal Housing Finance Agency’s recent announcement that, this year, a record $740 million will be released to the National Housing Trust Fund (HTF) to build, preserve and rehabilitate affordable rental housing for low-income families — $29 million more than was allocated in 2021. The National Housing
