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Bernie Sanders presidential campaign, 2016/Budgets

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Bernie Sanders announced his presidential run on April 30, 2015.[1]


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Former presidential candidate
Bernie Sanders
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(Assumed office: 2007)
U.S. Representative
(1991-2007)
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CANDIDATE SUMMARY
  • Believes the U.S. should examine Department of Defense waste and fraud, including massive cost overruns with defense contractors
  • Supports reducing the deficit in a fair way
  • As a self-described deficit hawk, he believes the wealthiest people and the largest corporations should pay their fair share
    • At a campaign event on December 28, 2015, in Iowa, Bernie Sanders discussed wasteful government spending. He said, "What it does mean is taking a hard look at an agency which recieves [sic] $600 billion per year where there is an immense amount of waste and fraud. We have massive cost overruns with defense contractors, we've got deployment after deployment for our soldiers, and we've got military families on food stamps."[2]
    • In an interview with The Washington Post, Sanders stated, "The deficit is a significant issue but it is important to know how we got into a deficit and our national debt. Very often at budget hearings you will hear me say as the major deficit hawk in the committee — and I refer to myself as that because I voted against the war in Iraq, I voted against tax breaks for millionaires, I voted against the Medicare prescription drug program, I voted against the deregulation of Wall Street, which has caused so many problems. The question is how do you do deficit reduction in a way that is fair. I’m a deficit hawk when I say we have to ask the wealthiest people and the largest corporations to pay their fair share. That’s a deficit hawk."[3]
    • Sanders voted for H.R.2775 - the Continuing Appropriations Act, 2014, which, among other things, raised the debt ceiling and ended the 2013 government shutdown.[4]
    • In 1995, Sanders voted against H.J.Res.1 - Proposing a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution of the United States.[5]
    • In 2010, Sanders voted against S.Amdt.4697 to S.510, which proposed establishing "an earmark moratorium for fiscal years 2011, 2012, and 2013."[6]

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    Footnotes

    1. ↑ VPR, "Bernie Sanders Is Streaming His Presidential Announcement On Periscope," April 30, 2015
    2. ↑ Talking Points Memo, "Bernie Sanders: Audit The Department Of Defense, Contractors Wasting Money While Soldiers Are On Food Stamps," December 29, 2015
    3. ↑ The Washington Post, "An interview with Bernie Sanders: Deficit Hawk," June 23, 2015
    4. ↑ Congress.gov, "H.R.2775," accessed April 8, 2015
    5. ↑ Congress.gov, "H.J.Res.1," accessed April 8, 2015
    6. ↑ Congress.gov, "S.Amdt.4697 to S.510," accessed April 8, 2015
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