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SHOCK: Bernie Sanders & Joe Biden REVEALED To Be Working Together BEHIND The Scenes!
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5:10Now PlayingSHOCK: Bernie Sanders & Joe Biden REVEALED To Be Working Together BEHIND The Scenes!
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Why Biden is keeping Bernie close
The president and the Senate’s most recognizable progressive have made sure to work constructively together, even under stressful policy battles.
As Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) fought to include a minimum wage increase inside Democrats’ coronavirus relief package, he made sure to keep the White House in the loop.
And as the administration prepared a video of President Joe Biden backing an effort by Amazon workers to unionize in Alabama, the White House made sure members of Sanders’ team knew about it too.
As Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) fought to include a minimum wage increase inside Democrats’ coronavirus relief package, he made sure to keep the White House in the loop.
And as the administration prepared a video of President Joe Biden backing an effort by Amazon workers to unionize in Alabama, the White House made sure members of Sanders’ team knew about it too.
The collaboration has paid off. In the hours after the video’s release, Bernie World heaped praise on Biden. And as Sanders explored different options for getting a minimum wage hike into the final bill — only for his Plan B to fall apart on Sunday — there was no massive blow up or notable friction between the senator’s office and the White House.
“Those are good productive conversations, quite frankly, between [Sanders] and [White House Chief of Staff] Ron Klain,” said Faiz Shakir, a political adviser to Sanders. From raising the wage floor to Amazon unionization efforts, “the relationship has generally been one of respect,” Shakir added. “We have felt an open door where, if we have something that might be good policy and politics for them, we’re going to raise it and they’re going to entertain it in a serious way.”
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