As the new year began, Sen. Bernie Sanders laid out a detailed Agenda for America. Sanders said on Monday that he will oppose a major global trade deal expected to come before Congress this year that would lead to fewer jobs and lower pay for workers in the United States. And in an interview on Tuesday, Sanders said Republicans on the House and Senate budget committees are threatening to undermine the Congressional Budget Office.

Agenda for America

The American people must make a fundamental decision. Do we continue the 40-year decline of our middle class and the growing gap between the very rich and everyone else, or do we fight for a progressive economic agenda that creates jobs, raises wages, protects the environment and provides health care for all? Are we prepared to take on the enormous economic and political power of the billionaire class, or do we continue to slide into economic and political oligarchy? These are the most important questions of our time, and how we answer them will determine the future of our country. Read more

Trade Deal Sanders said he would work with organized labor, environmental groups and other opponents of a 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership that the White House hopes to rush through Congress in the coming year. He issued a statement citing 10 reasons to oppose the agreement. Read more

Voodoo Economics Republicans in Congress reportedly plan to oust Doug Elmendorf, the Congressional Budget Office chief, because he won't base economic projections on something they call "dynamic scoring." That is the new buzzword among right-wing economists for a notion that tax cuts result in economic growth which, in turn, yields more government revenue. “It is a fraud,” Sanders said on Tuesday on The Thom Hartmann Program. It’s what the first President Bush called “voodoo economics,” Sanders added.  Listen here