 Bernie Sanders is now the Senate budget committee chairman and he is already flexing his muscles and this is just truly It's awesome to see it gives me at least some hope a little bit not like a lot, but some hope So as Warren Gunnells tweets out today budget committee chair Sanders introduced the 1.9 trillion dollar budget resolution Allowing the Senate to boost direct payments to $2,000 provide $400 a week to the unemployed Raised the minimum wage to $15 an hour prevent mass layoffs and more and the motion to proceed past 50 to 49 let's go and I love this because you know Democrats they were already too kind to Republicans like they tried to reach out tried to give them some input and they already proved within a matter of weeks their clowns they're not serious actors like the The counter offered that the 10 moderate Republicans proposed to Biden's 1.9 trillion dollar stimulus package It should get them laughed out of the room like they're not serious about actually delivering to the American people at a time of crisis So sidelined them push them out of the way you gave them a chance now It's time to pass what the American people needs using reconciliation now on the floor Bernie Sanders responded to Attacks that Republicans have lobbed against him because he's pushing for budget reconciliation to make change and what he said here was just it was perfect Mr. President, I have heard from some of my Republican colleagues Who tell us that well this reconciliation? Concept that's a radical idea. Why are you using? reconciliation And they are telling us that it is absolutely imperative That we go forward in a bipartisan way and Require 60 votes for passage But I must say that when Republicans used this same reconciliation process President I didn't hear much about bipartisanship at that point in fact Republicans use the reconciliation process to provide trillions of dollars in tax breaks to the top 1% and large profitable corporations by a simple majority vote The only people who voted for that bill were Republicans know by partisanship in that bill My Republican colleagues used reconciliation To open up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge With a drilling of oil Once again by a simple majority Only people who supported that were Republicans not one Democrat As we all remember painfully My Republican colleagues used the reconciliation process To try to repeal the Affordable Care Act and throw up to 32 Million Americans off of the health care. They currently have And as you'll recall mr. President That was a 100% partisan vote Which fortunately lost by one vote further Weeks weeks before a presidential election last election My Republican colleagues pushed through their nominee for the Supreme Court With 50 votes a few weeks before the election Not one Democrat supported that nominee totally partisan vote Well as the incoming chair of the Senate Budget Committee This is what I believe If Republicans can use reconciliation To help the wealthy and the powerful and Past legislation strongly opposed by the American people We can and must use reconciliation To help Americans recover From the worst economic and public health crisis in the modern history of our country This is why I love Bernie Sanders This is why I love Bernie Sanders because he's calling out the GOP's hypocrisy a blatant double standard Why is it acceptable to use budget reconciliation if we're delivering tax cuts to the rich? Or if we are confirming a Supreme Court nominee that corporate America really really wants on that court But the minute we try to actually push through things that help the American people especially at a time of crisis Well all of a sudden we're questioning. Where's the bipartisanship? Why can't we work together? Why can't we hold hands and sing kubayah after we've been obstructing everything that Democrats have tried to do for the last I don't know 10 15 years. I Mean Republicans are they're not serious They're a party that has been hijacked by not only extremists But private interests corporate America and it's not like the Democratic Party isn't also, you know Controlled by big business, but the Republican Party. They're not even trying to pretend to represent people they won't even do the bare minimum and like if you want people to Spend money have purchased purchasing power to buy the things that capitalists produce then you can't like Bleed them dry. You can't only give them crumbs and expect the wheels of capitalism to keep on turning That's just not the way that it works So Democrats at least being capitalists that they are acknowledged that if we don't have money to buy all of the Goods and things that capitalists make or their workers make to be more specific Then the system isn't gonna work, but Republicans have become ideologues They are only about delivering to corporate America And if they can't actually deliver anything to corporate America if it's just about helping out normal Americans Then they're not in favor of it unless there's something for their corporate donors It's why they agreed to the CARES Act only because there was a bailout for large multinational corporations So it's just they're so transparent and Bernie Sanders is basically stating the obvious But it doesn't get set enough in DC So I love what he said there and I'm looking forward to seeing the way that he Governs as the chair of the Senate Budget Committee. Love it