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Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/GettyFor several decades, the progressive economic agenda has centered around enacting single-payer health care (often dubbed “Medicare For All”). Progressive candidates, think tanks, lobbying organizations, and grassroots activists have campaigned, organized, and rallied for it.Thus, the failure of single-payer to gain broader traction has been blamed on corporate greed, right-wing billionaires, public ignorance, and a corrupt p...

You can work, you can look for work, you can train for work at school or you can volunteer 20 hours a work at your local soup kitchen across the street. its not a heavy lift. if you want to know the public approval of that, wisconsin had it as a ballot referendum question last year. 80% of wisconsinites voted for that provision. its popular. i dont want to say what is negotiable and what isnt. that is one thing. the other thing is we want to make sure theres a year of year spending reduction. fo...

Congress should go much further than the $17 billion in savings the President has proposed and should make sure these cuts are not transferred into new spending elsewhere.

The Administration has failed to confront the impact of BCA cuts on Obamacare’s cost-sharing subsidies.

A conservative plan to create personal retirement accounts and save Social Security from insolvency.

Spending $360 billion more dollars on anything right now. if the advocates of this bill are really serious they would concentrate on spending reduction and debt reduction in the near term. the incredible injustice that we are going to do to todays young people, they are the ones on whom these payable bills will be deposited. so i have to say that if their goal was to start back on a path toward lower debt, bravo for that. it means they have chosen to do it. its very unlikely to get us very far, ...

Spending $360 billion more dollars on anything right now. if the advocates of this bill are really serious they would concentrate on spending reduction and debt reduction in the near term. the incredible injustice that we are going to do to todays young people, they are the ones on whom these payable bills will be deposited. so i have to say that if their goal was to start back on a path toward lower debt, bravo for that. it means they have chosen to do it. its very unlikely to get us very far, ...

Spending $360 billion more dollars on anything right now. if the advocates of this bill are really serious they would concentrate on spending reduction and debt reduction in the near term. the incredible injustice that we are going to do to todays young people, they are the ones on whom these payable bills will be deposited. so i have to say that if their goal was to start back on a path toward lower debt, bravo for that. it means they have chosen to do it. its very unlikely to get us very far, ...

More money and more than $2 trillion in spend iing cuts. all this as the national debt continues to rise. something that the president promised to eliminate. moments ago, his agenting budget director point ed the finger at congress. >> this great progress is threatened by our unsustainable debt which now stands at more than $22 trillion. annual deficits are continuing to rise. and will exceed a trillion dollars a year and its projected that interest payments on the national debt will exceed mili...

Year that congress doesnt go along with our spending reduction. you mentioned mandatory spending. we have more reforms than any presidents budget in history. whats happened for far too long, congress has blamed mandatory spending and increased discretionary spending by large degree. they continue to let a paradigm exist in this country that says every dollar in defense spending were going to increase nondefense spending by a dollar. we dont think that paradigm allow us to be able to get our fisc...