More federal spending on infrastructure. Lower student interest rates. No tax loopholes for corporations.

Vermont independent Sen. Bernie Sanders, the top-ranking minority member of the Senate Budget Committee, said Monday he wants to take next year's budget resolution in a "radically different" direction from the one preferred by House and Senate Republicans.

"I'm going to work as hard as I can with other progressive members of the Senate to do everything we can to make sure this budget is not balanced on the backs of working families and low-income Americans," said Sanders, a potential presidential candidate.

Different versions of the fiscal 2016 budget resolution, which will provide a blueprint for federal spending, will be taken up by the House and Senate Budget committees this week. Sanders hasn't seen the resolutions crafted by Republicans, but he and committee Democrats already have changes in mind.

One amendment he plans to offer calls for a "significant" increase in funding to rebuild crumbling bridges, roads, airports and water systems.

"We can put millions of people back to work," he said.

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