Bernie backs the budget deal

Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders tentatively endorsed the Senate budget deal on Wednesday, calling it “much better than across-the-board budget cuts.”

“This is not the budget I would have written,” Sanders said in a written statement. “It doesn’t ask the most profitable corporations and the wealthiest Americans to pay their fair share in taxes and it increases Pentagon spending too much. But I will support it because it’s much better than across-the-board budget cuts, increased premiums for Medicare, cuts to Social Security and the constant threat we won’t pay our bills.”