Former President Donald Trump on Feb. 21 welcomed the idea of requiring those intending to run for U.S. president to go through mental competency examination. “ANYBODY running for the Office of President of the United States should agree to take a full & complete Mental Competency Test simultaneously (or before!) with the announcement that he…

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) claimed that due to a split Congress, a Medicare for All program “ain’t going to happen” in the next two years. During an NPR interview aired on Feb. 21, the Independent senator asserted that there was not enough support for the program, even from Democrats. The lawmaker said, however, that members…

Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley fired back at Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) after he labelled as “absurd” her call for competency tests for politicians over 75 years old. “Exactly what a career politician and socialist would say,” Haley told The Epoch Times on Monday. “This is about transparency. The Washington establishment is afraid of the…

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) says President Joe Biden is far more progressive as president of the United States than he was as a senator. And the left-wing legislator said on Feb. 19 that he would back Biden if he ran for reelection in 2024. “I think he is a much more progressive president than he was a United…

Moderna has reversed course and promised that people will not have to pay for the company’s COVID-19 vaccine once the U.S. government stops buying shots. “Moderna remains committed to ensuring that people in the United States will have access to our COVID-19 vaccines regardless of ability to pay,” the company said in a statement. Moderna’s…

Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and every Democrat member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions invited Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz to testify about his company’s compliance with federal labor laws. The invitation was sent on Feb. 8 via a letter signed by members of the committee that Sanders chairs. “Please consider this letter…

Reactions have been mixed as to the significance of Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema’s recent announcement that she quit the Democratic Party and registered as an independent, ranging from views that it changes “nothing much” to the move being “nothing but a Dem loss.” Sinema said in a recent statement on social media and an op-ed in the Arizona Republic…

Reactions have been mixed as to the significance of Sen. Kyrsten Sinema’s (I-Ariz.) recent announcement that she quit the Democratic Party and registered as an independent, ranging from views that it changes “nothing much” to the move being “nothing but a Dem loss.” Sinema said in a recent statement on social media and in an op-ed in The Arizona…

LOS ANGELES—With a little under two weeks until the Nov. 8 election, Mayoral Candidate and U.S. Rep. Karen Bass (D-Calif.) appeared on stage with U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) Oct. 27, establishing herself as the most progressive candidate running to govern the second most populous city in the United States. Organized by the California Working…

Bernie Sanders, chair of the Senate Budget Committee, supports raising America’s debt ceiling but insists that the practice itself of having a debt ceiling must remain. “You have to increase the debt ceiling,” Sanders insisted while speaking on CNN’s “State of the Union.” When asked whether the debt ceiling must be kept, Sanders confirmed “Yes,…