Sen. Bernie Sanders, the Vermont Impartial who received a fourth six-year time period final week, doubled down on his declare that the Democratic Get together’ lacks attraction to the working class, and responded to pushback from Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.
In appearances on CNN’s “State of the Union” and NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Sanders was pressed about his assertion, launched after President-elect Trump decisively defeated Vice President Harris within the 2024 presidential election.
“Look, the working people of this country are extremely angry,” Sanders advised NBC’s Kristen Welker. “They have a right to be angry in the richest country in the history of the world. Today, the people on top are doing phenomenally well, while 60% of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck. Millions of families worry that their kids have actually got to have a lower standard of living than they do.”
“You got the top 1% owning more wealth than the bottom 90%. We’re the only major country not to guarantee health care to all of our people. Twenty-five percent of our seniors are trying to live on $50,000 a year or less. We have the highest rate of childhood poverty of almost any major country on earth. And the gap between the people at the top and everybody else is getting wider and wider. And then, of course, that on top of all of that, we’ve got a corrupt campaign finance system which allows billionaires to buy elections. So if you’re an average worker out there, you’re saying, ‘Hey, I’m working longer and longer hours, go nowhere in a hurry, worried about my kids.’ And yet the people on top, ‘I’ve never had it so good.'”
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Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., delivers remarks on stage at NHTI Harmony Group Faculty earlier than President Biden on Oct. 22, 2024 in Harmony, New Hampshire. (Scott Eisen/Getty Photographs)
The left-wing lawmaker, who’s listed as a member of the Senate Democratic caucus, mentioned Wednesday, “It should come as no great surprise that a Democratic Party which has abandoned working class people would find that the working class has abandoned them.”
Pelosi shot again in opposition to the criticism of her social gathering on Saturday, telling The New York Occasions’ “The Interview” podcast that whereas she has “a great deal of respect” for Sanders, “I don’t respect him saying that the Democratic Party has abandoned the working class families.”
“Under President Biden, you see the rescue package, money in the pockets of people, the shots in the arm, children in school safely, working people back to work,” Pelosi mentioned. “What did Trump do when he was president? One bill that gave a tax cut to the richest people in America.”
Former Speaker of the Home Nancy Pelosi speaks throughout Nancy Pelosi in dialog with Katie Couric at 92NY on Oct. 24, 2024 in New York Metropolis. (John Lamparski/Getty Photographs)
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Welker performed the podcast clip on NBC and requested Sanders to reply.
“Nancy is a friend of mine,” Sanders mentioned. “But here is the reality. In the Senate in the last two years, we have not even brought forth legislation to raise the minimum wage to a living wage despite the fact that some 20 million people in this country are working for less than $15 an hour.” The progressive senator listed his grievances with the Democratically managed Senate, saying that previously two years the chamber didn’t go laws to make it simpler for staff to affix unions. He additionally claimed that the Senate has not been speaking about profit pension plans “so that our elderly can retire with security,” and that Democrats are “not talking about lifting the cap on Social Security so that we can extend the solvency of Social Security and raise benefits.”
“Bottom line, if you’re a working person out there, do you really think that the Democratic Party is going to the max, taking on powerful special interests and fighting for you? I think the overwhelming answer is no,” Sanders mentioned.
Donald Trump arrives to talk throughout an election night time occasion on the Palm Seashore Conference Middle on Nov. 6, 2024, in West Palm Seashore, Florida. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Photographs)
Arguing that Biden had adopted by way of on his promise to be essentially the most progressive president when it comes to home coverage, Sanders lodged a dig at Trump concerning the Republican’s success in reaching working-class voters.
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“What Donald Trump did is provided an explanation. He went around, he said, ‘I know you’re angry. And the reason is that zillions of illegal immigrants are coming over, and they’re eating your cats and dogs and everything else.’ That’s the reason. Well, obviously, that is not the reason,” Sanders mentioned. “The reason is, in my view, that we have an unprecedented level of corporate greed today, more income and wealth inequality. And people on top want it all. And we need an agenda that says to the working class, ‘We’re going to take on these powerful special interests and create an economy and a government that works for you.’ And by the way, that can’t happen unless you get big money out of politics. We’ve got to get rid of the Citizens United Supreme Court decision so billionaires do not continue to buy elections.”
