President Donald Trump’s $4.8 trillion budget proposal presented to Congress today boosts funds for the military and veterans and implements mandatory reforms for all agencies in an attempt to cut the deficit by $4.6 trillion over the next decade.
MSNBC host Chuck Todd played a clip of Sanders vowing to release his medical records “before the first votes are cast,” then pressed the Vermont senator on the broken pledge.
Maine lawmakers are working on a first-in-the-nation bill that would shift the burden for disposal of packaging materials from consumers to manufacturers.
“How much is it gonna cost?” Biden asked Sanders. “Who is gonna pay for it? It will cost more than the entire federal budget we spend now. More than the entire budget. The idea middle class taxes aren’t going to go up is just crazy.”
In March, Sanders, Vermont’s junior senator, became the first Democratic presidential candidate to promise to purchase offsets to effectively wipe out his campaign’s carbon production from travel. A Warren aide told The Hill in October that her campaign also purchases offsets for carbon emissions.
“By most traditional measures, the economy is stronger than it’s been in over three decades, especially where job creation is concerned,” Pete Roff, Newsweek’s Contributing Editor, said. “More people are working, and because real wages are rising, they have the ‘hope,’ finally, that Obama promised but found so hard to deliver.”
With 97 percent of the vote released in the Iowa Democratic caucuses, it appears Bernie Sanders and Pete Buttigieg each have grounds on which to claim a victory.
A New Hampshire voter confronted Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders on Wednesday about his seemingly evolved immigration platform, pointing out that he used to be opposed to “open borders.”
New York residents can no longer enroll in Trusted Travel Programs, which allow expedited entry of pre-approved individuals, because of a new law that allows illegal aliens to obtain driver’s licenses and bans information sharing between DMVs and DHS agencies.
“Where we may have been behind in a lot of our early childhood opportunities, we can take a leapfrog forward, not just accept being average, but really start letting our children thrive and letting these systems thrive and hopefully be that gold standard,” Sununu added.
At the time of the Tuesday announcement, former South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg had a slight lead in the percentage of the possible 41 state convention delegates to be awarded, while Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders had an equally slim lead in the popular vote.
The illegal alien who responsible for killing Rocky had been arrested for a DUI by local California authorities just days before the shooting. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) had placed an immigration detainer on the individual, but because of sanctuary policy laws in the state, the detainer was ignored.