U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders returns to Iowa Sunday to pitch $3.5 trillion budget proposal

[TexasTowelie]

U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders is coming back to Iowa, but it's not to stump for any nomination.

Instead, the chair of the Senate Budget Committee will be in Cedar Rapids on Sunday whipping support for the $3.5 trillion budget proposal he's calling "the most consequential piece of legislation for working families since FDR and the New Deal of the 1930s."

"I want people to understand what (the bill) means to ordinary Americans," Sanders, I-Vermont, said in an interview with the Des Moines Register. "This is the people's budget. As chairman, if I had the time, I'd go to 50 states in this country. But we're starting off with three in the Midwest."

Sanders' town hall will follow an event in Indiana on Friday. He said he wanted to target states that are predominantly represented in Washington, D.C., by Republicans to show that what's partisan in the Capitol has mainstream, working-class appeal.

Read more: https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/politics/2021/08/27/bernie-sanders-news-iowa-budget-reconciliation-proposal-cedar-rapids/5589738001/