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Schumer Defends Shutdown Strategy in Op-Ed

One Senate Democrat says it's like giving a bully 'all of your lunch money'

(Newser) - Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer has promised enough Democratic support to pass the Republican funding bill that will avoid a government shutdown, despite admitting the bill is "terrible." In a guest essay at the New York Times , he explains himself while calling President Trump a "nihilist" who'...

Democrats Say Musk Showed Social Security Is a Target

Billionaire calls safety net program a 'Ponzi scheme'

(Newser) - The world's richest man has called Social Security a "Ponzi scheme," drawing outrage from Democrats while possibly undercutting his boss. "There are fewer babies being born," Elon Musk told Joe Rogan on his podcast Friday, "and you have more people who are retired that...

Sanders: Working Conditions at Amazon 'Beyond Unacceptable'

Panel he chairs releases blistering report on safety at company's warehouses

(Newser) - "The shockingly dangerous working conditions at Amazon's warehouses revealed in this 160-page report are beyond unacceptable," Sen. Bernie Sanders said Sunday after the Senate panel he chairs released the results of its investigation of the online retail giant. The Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions—...

Sanders on Trump's Jail Comment: Looks Like 'Dictatorship'

Senator says Biden should 'very seriously' consider preemptive pardons

(Newser) - President-elect Trump recently said members of the House of Representatives committee that investigated the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot " should be in jail ," and President Biden is reportedly considering preemptive pardons for them and others Trump may target. Is that a good idea? "Well, I think he...

Bernie Sanders: 'Elon Musk Is Right' on Defense Spending

Pentagon budget is 'full of waste and fraud,' senator says

(Newser) - Sen. Bernie Sanders doesn't seem to have softened his stance on billionaires, but he's found something he agrees with Elon Musk about. In post Sunday on X , the independent senator from Vermont said Musk was right about the need to cut defense spending, the Hill reports. "Elon...

Pelosi: I Expected a Primary
Pelosi: I
Expected
a Primary
Nov 8, 2024 4:35 PM CST

Pelosi: I Expected a Primary

Former speaker says Biden's quick endorsement prevented a competition for the Democratic nomination

(Newser) - Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she thought the Democratic Party was going to hold a primary competition to pick a nominee after President Biden dropped his reelection bid in July. Instead, the nomination went uncontested to Vice President Kamala Harris. "Had the president gotten out sooner, there may...

Sanders Slams Democrats Over Election Losses

He accuses party of abandoning working-class people

(Newser) - Sen. Bernie Sanders was reelected on Tuesday, but he's not surprised that Democrats lost the White House. Sanders, who caucuses with Democrats, sharply criticized the party in a statement posted on social media, USA Today reports. "It should come as no great surprise that a Democratic Party which...

Your Food Packaging May Soon Come With a Warning Label

FDA hopes to add warnings signaling high levels of sodium, saturated fat, added sugars

(Newser) - "Eating patterns in the US do not align with federal dietary recommendations." That's per a recent proclamation by the Food and Drug Administration, which warns we're a nation facing "an ever-growing epidemic of diet-related chronic diseases such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and obesity." One...

At DNC, 'Hope Is Making a Comeback'
At DNC, 'Hope Is
Making a Comeback'
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Aug 21, 2024 6:26 AM CDT

At DNC, 'Hope Is Making a Comeback'

Obamas up the energy at Chicago's United Center

(Newser) - There was a hopeful, upbeat vibe at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago on Tuesday. With Vice President Kamala Harris and running mate Tim Walz rallying in Milwaukee, "Democrats turned to their most charismatic leaders," per the New York Times . Former President Obama and former first lady Michelle...

Prime Day Brings Deals— but Also Warehouse Injuries

Senate investigation calls out Amazon for 'extraordinarily high level' of injured workers

(Newser) - Amazon Prime Day is back, and the two-day sales blitz starting Tuesday brings more than deals on big-screen TVs and vacuum cleaners. A new Senate investigation finds that Prime Day also results in a slew of warehouse injuries among Amazon workers, reports the Washington Post . The yearlong review by the...

Sanders: Why Does Ozempic Cost 10 Times More in US?

Drugmaker's boss agrees to appear at Senate hearing

(Newser) - Lars Fruergaard Jørgensen, the chief executive of Novo Nordisk, agreed in a phone call with Sen. Bernie Sanders to testify before a Senate committee in September. He already knows what Sanders will ask: why Ozempic and Wegovy cost "10 to 15 times" more in the US than in...

New Legislation Would Cancel Americans' Medical Debt

Consumers owe billions, with many of them expressing no hope of every paying it off

(Newser) - Studies have shown that millions of Americans owe a combined $220 billion in medical debt, with 1 in 5 adults saying they don't expect to ever be able to pay off the bills. A group of congressional Democrats on Wednesday proposed knocking the amount down to zero. "People...

Senate's Second-Oldest Is Running for Re-Election
Bernie Sanders
Is Running Again
May 6, 2024 12:53 PM CDT

Bernie Sanders Is Running Again

82-year-old Vermont independent will seek a 4th Senate term he's all but guaranteed to win

(Newser) - At the ripe old age of 82, Bernie Sanders is definitely not trying to retire. As the Hill reports, the Independent senator from Vermont is seeking a fourth term this year, and he's likely to get it, having won his three previous terms handily. A victory would keep Sanders...

Arrest Made in Fire at Bernie Sanders' Office

Video shows someone starting blaze in Vermont building

(Newser) - A man was charged Sunday with setting a fire outside the Vermont office of US Sen. Bernie Sanders, federal prosecutors said. Shant Soghomonian, 35, who was previously of Northridge, California, entered the building on Friday and went to Sanders' third-floor office, where security video showed him spraying a liquid on...

Bernie Sanders: 4-Day Work Week Bill Is 'Not Radical'

Though Republicans apparently disagree

(Newser) - Bernie Sanders on Wednesday introduced a bill that would eventually move the United States to a four-day work week without reducing pay or benefits. The Thirty-Two Hour Workweek Act would, over a period of four years, move the threshold at which overtime must be paid from 40 hours to 32...

Sanders: Our Contractors Guilty of War Profiteering

Vermont senator slams excess defense spending, suggests revival of Truman Committee

(Newser) - Bernie Sanders has long been a strong advocate for health care for all and affordable child care and housing, among other progressive platforms. But "America's national priorities are badly misplaced," the independent Vermont senator writes in an op-ed for the Atlantic , with too much money in Sanders'...

GOP Senator on Teamsters Boss: 'In Oklahoma, You Don't Do This'

Markwayne Mullin says he was showing 'Oklahoma values' in trying to fight Sean O'Brien at hearing

(Newser) - A fight between the Teamsters union chief and a Republican senator almost got physical Tuesday and had to be refereed by Bernie Sanders at a Senate meeting on labor unions that "went off the rails," per the Daily Beast . After the verbal back-and-forth had ended, that GOP senator,...

Congresswoman Takes Flak Over 6-Word Phrase on Israel
6-Word Phrase on Israel
Stokes Controversy
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Nov 6, 2023 8:54 AM CST

6-Word Phrase on Israel Stokes Controversy

Rep. Rashida Tlaib invokes 'from the river to the sea,' which some see as an anti-Israeli rallying cry

(Newser) - The lone Palestinian-American in Congress is defending her use of a six-word phrase—"from the river to the sea"—that has become a political flashpoint in the US over the Israel-Hamas war. "From the river to the sea is an aspirational call for freedom, human rights, and...

Vermont Could Be Staring Down a Decade-Long Recovery

Flooding 'devastation is far reaching' in the state

(Newser) - Vermont residents got their first good look at the devastation caused by what's purported to be the worst flooding in the state in nearly a century on Wednesday as Mother Nature offered a brief break in rain. Venturing outside of drenched homes, in some cases for the first time...

Bernie Sanders Launches Investigation Into Amazon

Senator is probing working conditions at the e-commerce giant

(Newser) - Bernie Sanders announced Tuesday that the Senate committee he chairs has launched a probe into working conditions at Amazon's warehouses. The senator said the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, or HELP, will be looking into why Amazon is "one of the most dangerous places" to work...

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