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By Joel White Seema Verma, the new administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, recently praised Medicare's prescription drug benefit for giving seniors access to affordable medicines, saying she was "thankful" for the program. There's a lot to be thankful for.
CBS' Face The Nation's John Dickerson spoke with Pennsylvania voters, where they confirmed what the ABC News / Washington Post polls illuminated a coupled weeks ago: the Democratic Party is out of touch. One voter, a lifelong Democrat, said that his party is not only out of touch, but they have zero interest in remedying the situation.
"Not being a liberal doesn't mean you're a racist," a liberal Hollywood mogul declared in defense of White House advisor Steve Bannon. Bannon's former business partner, Jeff Kwatinetz, told "The Hollywood Reporter" that liberal media claims that Bannon is a racist, anti-Semite are "absurd" and that MSNBC is wrong to stubbornly repeat those accusations.
U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders said on Saturday that President Donald Trump was right to call Australia's universal healthcare system better than the U.S. system. Sanders, a self-described democratic socialist who ran for the Democratic presidential nomination last year, also said the Senate should use the Australian system as a model while crafting an alternative to Republican healthcare legislation that Trump endorses.
BEVERLY HILLS >> Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and his wife Jane are expected to comment on what's needed to move progress forward in the U.S. and California during a planned 20-minute award acceptance speech Saturday night in Beverly Hills. The couple will receive the Public Servants of the Year award from the nonprofit nonpartisan public interest group Consumer Watchdog at its 11th annual Rage for Justice Awards at the Beverly Wilshire.
" Innkeepers, restaurateurs and landscapers around the U.S. say they are struggling to find seasonal help and turning down business in some cases because the government tightened up on visas for temporary foreign workers. "There's going to be a lot of businesses that just can't function on a full-time basis, and some might not even open at all," said Mac Hay, who co-owns Mac's Seafood on Cape Cod and has organized seasonal businesses to lobby Congress.
In this Friday, April 21, 2017, file photo, President Donald Trump speaks at the Treasury Department in Washington, where he signed an executive order to review tax regulations set last year by his predecessor, as well as two memos to potentially reconsider major elements of the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial reforms passed in the wake of the Great Recession. While Republicans in Congress craft a bill to unwind the tighter financial rules that took effect after the 2008 crisis, President Donald Trump is looking in another, seemingly opposite direction: He's entertaining the idea of restoring the Depression-era firewall between commercial banking and its riskier investment side.
The new chairman of the state Democratic Party plans to heal divisions within the party stemming from last year's presidential election. NM Dem leader wants to unite Hillary, Bernie supporters ALBUQUERQUE - The new chairman of the state Democratic Party plans to heal divisions within the party stemming from last year's presidential election.
Bernie backers who are suing the DNC for propping up Hillary Clinton over the Vermont U.S. senator have little chance of winning their long-shot legal battle - but they've hit gold in the court of public opinion. The disgruntled group of Bernie Sanders supporters and Democratic donors say the Democratic National Committee defrauded them by unfairly boosting Clinton to clear the way for her primary victory.
Thousands of people across the U.S. are marking President Donald Trump's hundredth day in office by marching in pro... . Demonstrators march on the State Street during "100 Days of Failure" protest and march, Saturday, April 29, 2016, in Chicago.
Demonstrators hold a sign during a "100 Days of Failure" protest and march, Saturday, April 29, 2016, in Chicago. Thousands of people across the U.S. are marking President Donald Trump's hundredth day in office by marching in protest of his environmental policies.
The raging, wizened socialist, Sen. Bernie Sanders with his unashamed support for socialism was not happy at all with former President Barack Obama having recently accepted a $400,000 payment deal to be a speaker at a conference in 2017. "I think he, as a president, represented our country with integrity and intelligence, but I think at a time when people are so frustrated with the power of Wall Street and the big money interests, I think it is unfortunate that President Obama is doing this."
Thousands of people have assembled in Texas on President Donald Trump's hundredth day in office to demand federal action on climate change. The Texas Department of Public Safety told the Austin American-Statesman that about 3,500 people participated in a rally Saturday in Austin - part of nationwide marches calling for climate action.
Sen. Bernie Sanders , who appeared at an event last week with Omaha mayoral hopeful Heath Mello, defended his support for the Nebraska Democrat with the anti-abortion voting record, arguing that not all Democratic candidates will share the same views. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi echoed that sentiment, saying someone can be part of the Democratic Party and also be anti-abortion rights.
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders is not usually considered a moderating force within the Democratic Party, but at the moment he is playing that role on abortion policy. It's not that he has any pro-life sympathies: He has been co-sponsoring the Freedom of Choice Act as a senator for more than two decades.
Sen. Bernie Sanders and President Donald Trump don't agree on much, but the Vermont independent says that if the President is genuinely coaxing China to help moderate North Korea, he is "doing the right thing." "North Korea is a real danger to this world, and we have got to do everything we can to ... prevent a nuclear war and to get them to stop their nuclear program," said Sanders, speaking with CNN's Chris Cuomo on "New Day."
Cast out of government, the Democratic Party is up for grabs. And single-payer healthcare has become one of the key fronts in the battle to define the party's future.
Former presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders on Thursday will introduce a 100-percent clean energy bill to kick off major protests against President Trump's environmental agenda this weekend. The independent senator from Vermont, who ran as a Democrat, will be joined by climate change stalwart Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., at a public rally hosted by the organizers of the People's Climate March to announce the bill, according to an agenda.
Howard Dean thinks "hate speech" is not protected by the First Amendment. A New York University professor was given space in the New York Times to deride the idea of "a blanket permission to say anything anybody thinks" and to defend protestors who, using violence, shut down a speech that was to be delivered recently by Charles Murray, the social scientist.
As Donald Trump approaches the end of his first 100 days in office, the top Democrat in the U.S. Senate says he's been surprised by the failure of the White House to splinter the Democratic Party. In an interview with HuffPost, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer didn't close the door on bipartisan collaboration with the president.