One report stated his proposal could cost as much as $15 trillion, a figure experts said would nearly certainly require a middle class tax increase. Not only has Sanders proposed expanding Social Security but he is set upon creating a $5.5 billion youth jobs program which would help to create one million jobs for disadvantaged young people.
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With a large Republican field and the bullhorn candidacy of Donald Trump, much of the media focus in the presidential primary has been on the GOP, but a dogfight is shaping up in the race for the Democratic nomination.
The Sanders campaign, meanwhile, rolled out the endorsement of Paul Kirk, a Kennedy family confidant, as they have been gaining steam in Iowa and pulling away from Clinton in New Hampshire.
Bernie Sanders waits as Hillary Clinton walks on stage at Saint Anselm College Dec. 19, 2015 in Manchester, New Hampshire.
Here’s how Chelsea Clinton attacked her mother’s Democratic rival: “Sen”.
In particular, Clinton seeks to frame Sanders’ stated belief in a single-payer health care system as both unrealistic and potentially calamitous. She literally says “shame on you, Barack Obama”.
“We were very surprised today to see that Bernie Sanders had launched a negative television advertisement against Hillary”, Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook said in a press call Thursday.
The fact-checking website PolitiFact confirmed the average household would save between $505 and $1,823 per year under Sanders’ Medicare-for-all proposal, thus debunking assertions made by the Clintons this week. Clinton, in particular, has pressed Sanders to explain precisely how he would pay for his Medicare-for-all plan.
During an appearance in Iowa on Monday, Clinton said her opponent’s plan would put Americans’ health care in the hands of governors, calling it a “risky deal”. In Iowa, Clinton is doing a bit better than she was in 2008.
That is why I am, frankly, a bit surprised that with less than three weeks to go before the Iowa caucuses, the Clinton campaign is attacking our belief that health care must be recognized as a right, not a privilege, for every man, woman and child in our country. “The contrast on substantive issues between me and Sen. It’s not really an honest attack, and it’s not something that they should have sent her out to do”.
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Asked if the Clinton campaign would respond in kind, they said they would “wait and see what Senator Sanders does”.
