Primary Source: Bernie Sanders on What It Will Take for Democrats to Win in November

Thursday, March 29, 2018

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U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., will be in the Upper Valley today, speaking to veterans as part of National Vietnam War Veterans Day, meeting with officials at the VA Medical Center, and then dropping by the Bugbee Senior Center, a familiar, friendly stop in his Vermont travels.

In a phone interview from Burlington on Wednesday, before President Donald Trump fired VA Secretary David Shulkin, Sanders talked about some recent accomplishments in the new federal budget and what Democrats need to do to regain control of Congress, and all but confirmed he is running for another term in November.

The 76-year-old Sanders, a member of the Senate Democratic leadership and ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee, said he had pushed to include a $480 million increase for the Social Security Administration, the first substantive increase in eight years in the operating budget for core administrative activities at Social Security.

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“The first message is that the American people want to understand why for 40 years the middle class of this country has been in decline, while at the same time an enormous amount of new income and wealth has gone to people on top,” he said.

“Part two is where do we go from here” in creating an economy that “works for the middle class,” he said.

http://www.vnews.com/Bernie-Sanders-Talks-About-2018-Priorities-16498871