Sen. Bernie Sanders: Biden's $3.5T plan to help working families depends on Democratic unity

At a time when working families continue to struggle, poll after poll shows that the vast majority of the Americans people support the provisions in President Joe Biden's $3.5 trillion Build Back Better Act. 

So, given this overwhelming support, why is it taking so long for Congress to pass this bill? The answer is simple. Follow the money.

As part of our corrupt, big-money dominated political system, the pharmaceutical industry is now spending hundreds of millions of dollars on lobbying, campaign contributions and television ads to defeat this legislation because it does not want Medicare to negotiate for lower prescription drug prices. In order to increase their profits they want American taxpayers to continue paying, by far, the highest prices in the world for our medicine – sometimes ten times more than the people in other countries.