Certainly possible, even given the content of the article.
He said it will include emergency relief for those harmed by the pandemic as well as investments in infrastructure, health care and "a whole range of things that are going to generate good-paying jobs."
The comments indicate that he and his party will be less inclined than they were during the Obama administration to acquiesce to Republican demands to limit new spending because of the national debt.
The president-elect suggested he believes the $900 billion pandemic relief package passed by Congress last month would not be enough. His remarks were well-received by progressives who have been skeptical of his moderate and deficit-conscious instincts.
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., the runner-up in the 2020 Democratic primary and likely incoming chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, praised Biden's comments in a Saturday interview.
"The president-elect is exactly right that this is not the time for austerity politics," Sanders told NBC News. "We cannot maintain the austerity economics that have allowed the very rich to do phenomenally in this country while working people suffer."
Sanders is poised to oversee the budget reconciliation process, which is not subject to a filibuster. Democrats, who will seize control in the 50-50 Senate with the tie-breaking vote of Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, will be able to approve policies of taxing and spending with a bare majority of votes.
On the other hand, were any of us expecting bernie to get such a high position? I think it’s ok to be optimistic about this. It never made sense why he dropped out so soon, maybe this was part of the agreement. No harm in paying attention I guess
I don't think that's a position the democratic party is giving him. I believe he gets it automatically because he has seniority in the budget committee, and the democrats are now the majority party, but I could be wrong.
I see what you’re saying. I don’t get how any of this works tbh, considering bernies only been a senator since 2007 and there’s other people who have been senators longer than him on the team. At the very least, it isn’t a bad thing that he is where he is. I’ll stop short of going full bernie_3dChess_fanfic.txt, but we’ll see.
The senate is a seniority system. Bernie has been the top Democrat on the budget committee for six years. If Dems had won the Senate for any of the past three cycles he would have had this position then.
Certainly possible, even given the content of the article.
On the other hand, were any of us expecting bernie to get such a high position? I think it’s ok to be optimistic about this. It never made sense why he dropped out so soon, maybe this was part of the agreement. No harm in paying attention I guess
I don't think that's a position the democratic party is giving him. I believe he gets it automatically because he has seniority in the budget committee, and the democrats are now the majority party, but I could be wrong.
I see what you’re saying. I don’t get how any of this works tbh, considering bernies only been a senator since 2007 and there’s other people who have been senators longer than him on the team. At the very least, it isn’t a bad thing that he is where he is. I’ll stop short of going full bernie_3dChess_fanfic.txt, but we’ll see.
The senate is a seniority system. Bernie has been the top Democrat on the budget committee for six years. If Dems had won the Senate for any of the past three cycles he would have had this position then.