Divided Congress United in Not Giving a Shit About Workers : The Senate voted overwhelmingly to kill a pro-labor amendment to the 2022 America COMPETES Act—right before voting to protect a $10 billion handout to Jeff Bezos. https://www.vice.com/en/article/xgdbvw/congress-kills-pro-labor-america-competes-act-bernie-sanders
Last month, Sen. Bernie Sanders penned a column in The Guardian criticizing plans to provide Jeff Bezos—a man worth nearly $200 billion who paid $0 in federal income taxes—with a $10 billion handout for his Blue Origin space company. The legislation to build that second Human Landing System comes after Blue Origin lost a bid for the first one to Elon Musk’s SpaceX and nearly a year of lobbying Congress to give the company another chance.
Divided Congress United in Not Giving a Shit About Workers : The Senate voted overwhelmingly to kill a pro-labor amendment to the 2022 America COMPETES Act—right before voting to protect a $10 billion handout to Jeff Bezos. https://www.vice.com/en/article/xgdbvw/congress-kills-pro-labor-america-competes-act-bernie-sanders
Last month, Sen. Bernie Sanders penned a column in The Guardian criticizing plans to provide Jeff Bezos—a man worth nearly $200 billion who paid $0 in federal income taxes—with a $10 billion handout for his Blue Origin space company. The legislation to build that second Human Landing System comes after Blue Origin lost a bid for the first one to Elon Musk’s SpaceX and nearly a year of lobbying Congress to give the company another chance.