One centrist super PAC has already spent $2 million to oppose a progressive Democratic candidate in Pennsylvania.
Bernie Sanders
Several other progressive lawmakers joined calls for an independent investigation into the murder of Shireen Abu Akleh.
During a rally for House candidate Summer Lee, Sen. Bernie Sanders called out super PACs as corrosive to democracy.
“This is an issue not just of health care. This is an issue about what kind of nation we are,” Sanders said.
“Why are you caucusing with the Senate Democrats?” Sanders asked in a pointed tweet.
On the Senate floor, Bernie Sanders said Democrats “can and must” pass the Women’s Health Protection Act with 50 votes.
The pandemic has only made the need for Medicare for All more urgent, Sanders said.
If the GOP can end the filibuster for anti-Democratic reasons, Democrats can do so to protect abortion access, he said.
“You forgot that the people are the ones who make these companies operate,” said organizer Christian Smalls.
The Senate voted down Bernie Sanders’s proposal to cut moon-lander funding that could benefit Jeff Bezos.