From Paul Ryan to Nikki Haley GOP Nightmare of Senate Budget Chair Bernie Sanders About to Come True

[turbinetree]

Published on
Sunday, January 17, 2021
by Common Dreams

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"When Republicans controlled the Senate they used the reconciliation process to provide huge tax breaks for the rich and large corporations," said Sanders on Saturday. "We're going to use reconciliation to protect working families, the sick and the poor."

by Jon Queally, staff writer

The long-held Republican nightmare that a champion of working-class people and the common good—one who has dedicated his political career to curbing poverty and injustice while denouncing corporate greed, endless war, and the cruelty of a for-profit health system that leaves millions upon millions uninsured or without affordable access to care—would assume the powerful position of chairing the Senate Budget Committee is about to become a reality.

"Time to face the harsh reality, socialist Bernie Sanders will become the chairman of the Senate Budget Committee. He has vowed to use his position to enact his progressive agenda on healthcare, climate, infrastructure spending, and cutting defense spending," Nikki Haley tweeted Saturday.

While it came from Trump's former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations as a kind of ominous warning, Sanders' wife, Jane O'Meara Sanders, was among those who shot back with a clever and simple quip. "Yes he has," she tweeted in response.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/01/17/paul-ryan-nikki-haley-gop-nightmare-senate-budget-chair-bernie-sanders-about-come

[Johnny2X2X]

1. This is a very very big deal

Remember, Trump got his tax cuts for the rich through using reconciliation. They could pass a stimulus and pay for it by repealing some of Trump’s tax cuts. They could potentially put student loan reform in it too.

[Johnny2X2X]

2. This is a very very big deal

Remember, Trump got his tax cuts for the rich through using reconciliation. They could pass a stimulus and pay for it by repealing some of Trump’s tax cuts. They could potentially put student loan reform in it too.

[turbinetree]

3. The student loan item you mention was in Sanders platform when he was running

that would be a a very big deal, that is for sure.............

[Johnny2X2X]

4. Joe has significant student loan reform too

Joe’s plan was a Max of 5% of discretionary income in payments a year. Say you make $60 K a year, they would call your discretionary income $48 K a year. 5% of that is $2400 a year or $200 a month. That would change lives.