Bernie Sanders: US isn’t compassionate to poor

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Former presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., said the U.S. is not a compassionate society while pressing President-elect Trump’s pick to be the nation’s top health official.

“No, we are not a compassionate society in terms of our relationship to poor and working people,” Sanders said during the confirmation hearing of Rep. Tom Price, R-Ga., Trump’s nominee to be the health and human services secretary.

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