Sanders skips coronavirus stimulus vote for event with AOC, Omar, Tlaib [View all]

[Galraedia]

Sen. Bernie Sanders claims he’s too busy dealing with the coronavirus crisis to pull the plug on his ailing campaign — but when it came time to vote on a crucial, $1.8 trillion stimulus package Sunday night, the presidential wannabe was in Burlington, Vermont, holding a campaign event.

While the rest of the Senate hammered out the package into the early hours of Monday, Sanders was continuing his doomed White House bid with a virtual “coronavirus roundtable,” starring firebrand Reps. Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

Sanders spent the first 30 minutes of the video hectoring his Senate colleagues over the bill, accusing Republicans of giving the Trump administration “a blank check to hand out corporate welfare.”

“I know some of my Republican colleagues are talking about a one-time, $1,000 payment,” he said, referring to the proposal to send direct checks to American families.

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