Sanders Derides Congress for Fully Funding Military Amid Housing Crisis [Video]

U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders on Monday derided those of his colleagues who claim it’s too expensive for the federal government to take ambitious action on national crises in housing and healthcare while simultaneously supporting a military budget that’s approaching $1 trillion a year.

“I find it amusing that any time we come to the floor and members point out that we have a housing crisis, that we have some 600 million Americans who are homeless, that we have millions and millions of people in this country spending 40, 50, 60% of their limited incomes on housing and that we need to invest in low-income and affordable housing, what I hear is, ‘We don’t have the money,’” Sanders (I-Vt.) said on the floor of the Senate.

“When we talk about increasing Social Security benefits, well, ‘we just can’t afford to do that. We just can’t afford to expand Medicare to cover dental, hearing, or vision. …