It’s mayhem in the Democratic Party.
Bernie Sanders has had enough of Joe Biden.
And he just shocked everyone by declaring war on the President.
There’s a standoff brewing in Washington between President Joe Biden and Sen. Bernie Sanders and it’s heating up quickly.
Sanders, who identifies as an Independent, but caucuses with the Democrats, is going to war with Biden over a nominee for a major position.
He is trying to force Biden to adopt his socialist agenda on healthcare and he’s playing hardball to get his way.
According to Politico, “When President Joe Biden nominated Monica Bertagnolli to run the National Institutes of Health, it seemed like a choice meant to make everyone happy.”
“Yet two months later, what many viewed as a slam-dunk selection has become the latest personnel headache for a White House that’s struggled mightily of late to get its nominees through the narrowly divided Senate.”
“Bertagnolli’s candidacy is stalled indefinitely, caught up in a standoff between the administration and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) over Biden’s drug pricing agenda.”
This isn’t the first time Sanders has challenged the establishment of the Democratic Party.
He ran against Hillary Clinton in 2016, even though Clinton was supposed to be coronated as the de facto nominee with no competition.
Sanders ultimately won a number of states in the primary and came closer than anyone expected to winning the Democrat nomination.
Now he has Joe Biden in his crosshairs.
The reason Sanders pulls these stunts is because he’s a radical socialist, far to the left of nearly anyone else in U.S. politics.
While most Democrats are socialist “lite,” Sanders is the real deal. He wants the U.S. to be more like Cuba or Venezuela, by nationalizing entire industries and plundering the rich to redistribute money equally to everybody.
That’s his plan with drug pricing as well.
“Sanders, who chairs the Senate committee responsible for vetting Bertagnolli’s candidacy, said in a recent interview that he began warning the administration in January that he wanted more unilateral actions to slash drug prices. Frustrated by the lack of response, he decided to go public in a June interview with The Washington Post, vowing to oppose all health nominees until the White House met his demands,” the article continued.
It seems the Biden administration is regretting putting Sanders in such a powerful position in the Senate.
Maybe they’re realizing that a socialist insurgent shouldn’t have that kind of power. But it may be too late for them to do anything about it.
Bernie Sanders has declared war on Joe Biden and its thrown a massive and unexpected wrench into the plans of the Biden administration.
Now the Democratic Party is rupturing, and Joe Biden is in big trouble unless he can pull things back together before it’s too late.