Sanders would like to see Biden tilt left with Cabinet [View all]
Source: Politico
By DAVID COHEN
12/27/2020 10:00 AM EST
Updated: 12/27/2020 10:08 AM EST
Sen. Bernie Sanders said Sunday he'd like to see more progressives in President-elect Joe Biden's Cabinet.
Speaking on ABC's "This Week," Sanders said, "What I have said many, many times is the progressive movement itself probably is 35 or 40 percent of the Democratic Coalition. And I believe that the progressive movement deserves seats in the Cabinet; that has not yet happened."
Sanders, an independent senator from Vermont who ran in the Democratic primaries in 2016 and 2020, remains a leading voice for encouraging the Democratic Party to shift further to the left.
"I would like to see," Sanders added, "strong progressives in the administration who are going to stand up for the working families of this country, who believe that healthcare is a human right, who believe we’ve got to make sure that public colleges and universities are tuition free and that we have to be aggressive on issues like climate change, racial injustice, immigration reform."
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