If our budget passes, it would be one of the most important pieces of legislation since the New Deal. But we must fight for it
Now is the time.
At a time when the gap between the very rich and everyone else is growing wider, when two people now own more wealth than the bottom 40% and when some of the wealthiest people and biggest businesses in the world pay nothing in federal income taxes, the billionaire class and large profitable corporations must finally start paying their fair share of taxes.
In the midst of the many long-ignored crises that this legislation is attempting to address, we will not have one Republican senator voting for it
Bernie Sanders is a US senator, and the ranking member of the Senate budget committee. He represents the state of Vermont, and is the longest-serving independent in the history of Congress