Bernie Sanders Urges Congress to Reject Bailout for Bezos Space Company

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Bernie Sanders Urges Congress to Reject Bailout for Bezos Space Company
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Bernie Sanders: “At a time when over half of the people in this country live paycheck to paycheck, should we really be providing a multibillion-dollar taxpayer bailout for Bezos to fuel his space hobby?”

With the COMPETES Act, Congress appears poised to give Bezos another shot at a NASA contract. The House and Senate have both

of the legislation, but the two bills must be reconciled before they can reach President Joe Biden’s desk for final approval.” and attach conditions to the measure’s proposed taxpayer subsidies to the U.S. microchip industry. Aslast month, Bezos’ company is “working behind the scenes to combat the Vermont Independent’s assault on its possible role in NASA’s public-private partnership to land on the moon by 2025.

“NASA has identified over 12,000 asteroids within 45 million kilometers of Earth that contain iron ore, nickel, precious metals, and other minerals,” the senator wrote. “Just a single 3,000-foot asteroid may contain platinum worth over $5 trillion. Another asteroid’s rare earth metals could be worth more than $20 trillion alone.

“The questions we must ask are: who will be cashing those checks?” Sanders continued. “Who will, overall, be benefiting from space exploration? Will it be a handful of billionaires or will it be the people of our country and all of humanity?”

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