Sen. Bernie Sanders announced he’d be bringing his brand of populism to the powerful Senate Finance Committee next year, with a wide remit over tax, trade, Social Security, social safety net programs and health care policy.
But no final decisions have been made, despite the Vermont independent’s assertion late Friday that he’ll be joining Finance in the new Congress.
The panel will have several openings next Congress on the Democratic side of the dais, thanks to retirements, two reelection defeats and a resignation. Sanders, a self-described democratic socialist, would bolster the voices of progressives of the panel, who are set to lose Sens. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, and Bob Casey, D-Pa., who conceded defeat Thursday.
