Bernie Sanders

Why the rhetoric surrounding wealth inequality is especially acute this election season among Democratic presidential candidates — and will continue to be so.

Sen. Bernie Sanders may have lost the race to be the Democratic nominee for president, but the independent from Vermont was still interested in joining President-elect Joe Biden’s Cabinet in a role he feels passionate about. Rumors swirled for months that Sanders, who has long advocated for the working class, was jockeying to be secretary of labor, and Biden...

The Senate has no immediate plans to vote on a House-passed bill to increase the coronavirus relief stimulus checks to $2,000.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell blocked Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s bid to unanimously pass $2,000 stimulus checks.

Congress is trying to finalize a coronavirus relief plan and needs to pass a funding bill before Saturday to prevent a government shutdown.

More direct payments to Americans could be included in the next coronavirus relief package. But a fight is brewing over just how much those checks will be.

The coronavirus relief deal would reportedly include direct payments but not liability protections or state and local relief.

Congress aims to pass another coronavirus relief package and a government funding bill this week as millions are set to lose benefits.

The law extends government funding by one week as Congress scrambles to reach spending and Covid relief deals.

As the Senate aims to pass a funding bill, Sens. Bernie Sanders, Josh Hawley, Rick Scott and Mike Braun are among those threatening its passage.

The two senators are reaching across the aisle in a bid to make sure second $1,200 stimulus checks make the final cut in any legislation.

Congress is struggling to reach a coronavirus relief deal as liability protections, state and local aid, and stimulus checks divide lawmakers.

Congress is rushing to extend government funding and pass coronavirus relief before unemployment and eviction moratorium provisions expire.

Congress aims to both pass a coronavirus relief package and avoid a government shutdown in the coming days.

Neera Tanden’s Center for American Progress and its political arm have raised millions from those with ties to Wall Street and Silicon Valley.

Walmart and McDonald’s are among the top employers of beneficiaries of Medicaid and food stamps, according to a GAO study commissioned by Sen. Bernie Sanders. “U.S. taxpayers should not be forced to subsidize some of the largest and most profitable corporations in America,” Sanders said in a statement Wednesday evening. “It is time for the owners of Walmart, McDonald’s and...

As young people proved their electoral influence in 2020, youth organizers are pushing the Democratic Party to embrace a more progressive platform.

“If the Democrats can win both of these seats back, then they will be in control of the Senate,” GOP pollster Frank Luntz noted.

Sen. Bernie Sanders discusses the upcoming presidential election.

Sen. Bernie Sanders shares why he endorsed Joe Biden, and why he believes the election results will take longer than usual.