{"id":828448,"date":"2021-09-29T16:43:30","date_gmt":"2021-09-29T20:43:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=828448"},"modified":"2021-09-29T16:43:33","modified_gmt":"2021-09-29T20:43:33","slug":"bernie-sanders-blames-the-press-for-not-talking-about-importance-of-reconciliation-package","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bernie-sanders-blames-the-press-for-not-talking-about-importance-of-reconciliation-package\/","title":{"rendered":"Bernie Sanders Blames The Press For Not Talking About \u2018Importance\u2019 Of Reconciliation Package"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbernie-sanders-blames-the-press-for-not-talking-about-importance-of-reconciliation-package%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=828448&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<aside id=\"right1forarticles\">\n<\/aside>\n<div id=\"ob-read-more-selector\" readability=\"44.9177877429\">\n<p>Independent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders blasted reporters Wednesday in the Capitol for not talking about key provisions in the $3.5 trillion Build Back Better Act.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<span class=\"node\"><span class=\"leaf\">Why don\u2019t we talk about what\u2019s in the bill and the importance of what\u2019s in the bill?<\/span><\/span>\u201d the Budget Committee chairman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/minutes\/congress\/09-29-2021\/sanders-boils-over\/\">asked<\/a>, according to a Politico recording. \u201c<span class=\"node\"><span class=\"leaf\">What we are trying to do is end or significantly reduce childhood poverty. We\u2019re trying to deal with the existential threat of climate. Trying to make sure that old people have teeth in their mouths. We\u2019re trying to make sure that people are not homeless.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"6.48\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/politicongress?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@politicongress<\/a>: Bernie Sanders chastised the media for its focus on the timing of both bills \u2014 not their contents. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Thgqvl7zvL\">https:\/\/t.co\/Thgqvl7zvL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Matthew Kaminski (@KaminskiMK) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KaminskiMK\/status\/1443252163623497730?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 29, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Sanders <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/07\/14\/democrats-chuck-schumer-bernie-sanders-infrastructure-budget-reconciliation-plan\/\">wrote<\/a> large portions of the social spending package, which he has <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/04\/sanders-if-republicans-wont-support-3-5-trillion-wish-list-then-we-have-to-do-it-alone\/\">urged<\/a> Democrats to pass through the reconciliation process since July. In recent days, he has <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BernieSanders\/status\/1442925034402508800\">called<\/a> for the House of Representatives to vote down the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), scheduled for a vote Thursday, if Democrats can not come to an agreement on the Build Back Better Act. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/12\/dont-make-this-joe-manchin-issue-bernie-sanders-pushes-back-dana-bash\/\">(RELATED: \u2018Don\u2019t Make This A Bernie Sanders Versus Joe Manchin Issue: Sanders Pushes Back On Dana Bash)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>However, reporters should not ask Sanders about the dates, he said, since the provisions are \u201c<span class=\"node\"><span class=\"leaf\">a little bit more important than worrying about whether it is tomorrow or the next day.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is tough stuff,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>During the 2016 presidential primary, Sanders <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2015\/08\/17\/bernie-sanders-blasts-ana-marie-cox-for-asking-about-his-hair\/\">snapped<\/a> a reporter who asked him about his hair, asking if she had \u201cserious questions.\u201d He has claimed that The Washington Post is <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2019\/08\/13\/bernie-sanders-jeff-bezos\/\">unfair<\/a> in its coverage of him due to his criticisms of owner Jeff Bezos, who founded Amazon.<\/p>\n<p>During the 2020 Democratic presidential primary, Sanders\u2019 campaign manager, Faiz Shakir, complained that the campaign only received negative press coverage, <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2019\/10\/23\/bernie-sanders-polls-democrats\/\">calling<\/a> the described phenomenon a \u201cBernie Blackout.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Independent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders blasted reporters Wednesday in the Capitol for not talking about key provisions in the $3.5 trillion Build Back Better Act.\u201cWhy don\u2019t we talk &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-828448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=828448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=828448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=828448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=828448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}