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SEAN GALLUP/GETTY IMA WEEK 45, 2019 G E S OUR NATION Becoming a A member of the U.S. Army Europe Band & Chorus stands among graves at the Normandy American Cemetery Mortarman: and Memorial on the 75th anniversary of the World War II Allied D-Day invasion, in 97-Year-Old Colleville-sur-Mer, France, on Veteran Recalls June 6, 2019. WWII Stepping back on American soil after the war ended was indescribable for Bruno Stanga: ‘No telling it really. You’re just on air’ 8 2 | OUR NATION Week 45, 2019 Week 45, 2019 OUR NATION | 3 STR/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES Criticisms Mount to Warren’s Medicare for All Plan SCOTT OLsoN/GETTY IMAGES ASHINGTON—U.S. presidential con- tender Elizabeth Warren’s plan to pro- This my-way- vide health care for all Americans, which she estimates would cost just under $52 or-the-highway W trillion over 10 years, was attacked over idea, that either the weekend by Republicans and fel- you’re for kicking low Democrats and parodied on NBC’s everybody off “Saturday Night Live,” the long-running their private television comedy show. plans in four Democratic The “Medicare for All” proposal, presidential which Warren’s 2020 presidential years or you’re for candidate and campaign released on Nov. 1, calls for business as usual, former Vice President Joe cuts in defense spending and passing it’s just not true. Biden speaks immigration reform to increase tax at the Liberty revenue from newly legal immigrants, Pete Buttigieg, and Justice two steps that would face an uphill Democratic Celebration in battle in Congress. presidential contender Des Moines, and mayor of South Iowa, on Nov. 1, It would also be funded by cost-cut- Bend, Indiana 2019. ting, business contributions, and new R taxes on Wall Street, big businesses, EUTE and wealthy individuals, all of which RS/ cluding Mark Zandi, the chief econo- Barack Obama and previously called Y U carry their own challenges. ri mist at Moody’s Analytics, supporting Medicare for All a “pipe dream,” said G ri Warren, a U.S. senator from Massa- PA her calculations. Warren’s campaign would be forever S chusetts, has emerged as a front-run- /F Biden took issue with Warren’s ex- associated with the idea in the future, I LE LE ner along with former Vice President Pho planation of who would pay for her to its detriment. T Joe Biden in the race for the Demo- O proposal. “This was Bernie’s idea, and now, she cratic nomination to face Republican “Her plan would create a new tax owns the idea,” he said. “This issue is President Donald Trump in the No- on employers of almost $9 trillion not going to happen, and it is not the vember 2020 election. that would come out of work- way you argue health care.” Warren, a former law profes- ers’ pockets, a new financial On Nov. 3, the Republican National Iranian students climb over the wall of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran on Nov. 4, 1979. sor, has become known for a transaction tax that would Committee called the price tag of War- bevy of detailed policy pro- impact investments held by ren’s approach to health care “stagger- posals. But she had faced middle-class Americans, ing” on Twitter. criticism for not detailing and a new capital gains tax “Elizabeth Warren’s policies are so how she would pay for the that would affect far more radical, the math doesn’t even come Medicare for All plan. The people than she stated to- close,” Steve Bannon, a former adviser US Calls on Iran to Release Americans on proposal was introduced night,” Biden said in a state- to Trump, said on Fox News on Nov. 3. in the U.S. Senate by rival ment on Nov. 2. Warren’s plan was the focus of a Democratic candidate Bernie Another Democratic presi- nearly eight-minute-long opening 40th Anniversary of US Embassy Takeover Sanders (I-Vt.). dential contender, South Bend, skit on “Saturday Night Live” that Her health care overhaul would Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg, was widely circulated on social me- NiChoAS KAMM/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES replace private health insurance, in- said the plan’s elimination of private dia afterward. PETR SVAB New Sanctions cluding employer-sponsored plans, insurance was too inflexible. “When Bernie was talking Medicare Also on Nov. 4, the administration with full government-sponsored cov- “This my-way-or-the-highway idea, for All, everybody was like, ‘Oh cool,’ The administration of President Don- imposed sanctions on nine appoin- The Iranian erage, and individuals would no longer Sen. Elizabeth that either you’re for kicking every- and then they turned to me and they ald Trump urged the Iranian regime tees and representatives of Iran’s Su- regime have to pay premiums, deductibles, Warren (D-Mass.) body off their private plans in four said, ‘Fix it, Mom,” said Kate McKinnon, on Nov. 4 to release American citizens preme Leader Ali Khamenei, includ- continues to co-pays, or other out-of-pocket costs. speaks during an years or you’re for business as usual, who plays Warren on the show. “I’ll do in its custody. ing Ebrahim Raisi, who is responsible It would extend Medicare, the U.S. event to introduce it’s just not true,” Buttigieg said on it because that’s what Moms do.” target innocent the “Medicare for The call came on the 40th anniver- for thousands of extrajudicial killings, government’s health insurance pro- All Act of 2017” on ABC’s “This Week” on Nov. 3. To fund the plan, “we’re going to cut sary of the day that Iranian militants including executions of seven children civilians for use gram for people 65 years and older and Capitol Hill on Sept. Sanders told ABC News his Medicare military spending, so ... immediately stormed the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, by the regime, one official said. as pawns in its the disabled, to cover all Americans. 1 3, 2 017. for All approach “will be much more dead in the water,” the actor said. The taking more than 50 Americans hos- Two of the sanctioned people have Warren has said it would provide progressive in terms of protecting the plan also requires that the United tage for over 14 months. also been linked to the 1983 U.S. Ma- failed foreign health care coverage for some 27 financial well-being of middle income States tax billionaires like Jeff Bezos The American captives “are a grim rine barracks bombing in Beirut that relations. million Americans who are cur- families.” Sanders’ campaign has not and big banks, she added. “All we have reminder that the regime is funda- killed 241 U.S. service members, and rently uninsured and that the taxes yet released a detailed plan explain- to do is convince JPMorgan to operate mentally exactly the same as it was the 1994 bombing in Buenos Aires, Stephanie Grisham, wouldn’t affect the middle class, ing how he would fund the proposal. like a non-profit,” McKinnon said. 40 years ago,” a senior administration Argentina, of the Argentine Israel- White House press while saving American households secretary FR official said during a Nov. 4 conference ite Mutual Association, Secretary of ANC $11 trillion in out-of-pocket spending ‘Not Going to Happen’ By Heather Timmons call with reporters, noting that the State Mike Pompeo said in a Nov. 4 W OIS over the next decade. Rahm Emanuel, who was chief of hostage crisis anniversary “is an ex- statement. She released letters from experts, in- staff for former Democratic President From Reuters AL S cellent opportunity for the Iranian re- The sanctions add to an already ex- C Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in Washington on Oct. 31, 2019. H gime to renounce its current practice tensive number imposed on Iran and AE SCOTT OLsoN/GETTY IMAGES R T of hostage-taking, and immediately its leadership by the administration S/ terrorists and militants across the poisonous scorpion whose nature it is A F P and unconditionally release all unjust- upon Trump’s withdrawal from the V Middle East. to sting and cannot be stopped unless I ly detained Americans on Iranian soil Iran nuclear deal last year. GETTYA IMA In September, Washington blamed it is crushed,” Mousavi said in remarks in a sign that they are truly ready to Iran for an attack on oil facilities in carried by state TV. rejoin the international community.” Violating the Deal G Saudi Arabia that interrupted nearly On Nov. 3, Khamenei, who has the E Four Americans are known to be Iran announced on Nov. 4 that it’s S 58 percent of Saudi oil production ultimate say on all state matters, re- currently detained by Tehran: two on doubled the number of uranium and more than 5.5 percent of the newed a ban on talks with the United espionage charges, one for unknown centrifuges it operates, to 60 from world’s daily output. Iran-backed States. reasons, and one for “collaborating 30, further violating the deal it Houthi rebels in Yemen claimed “Those who believe that negotiations with enemy states,” according to the made with world powers in responsibility. with the enemy will solve our prob- advocacy group Center for Human 2015. “The Iranian regime con- lems are 100 percent wrong,” he said. Rights in Iran. Iran has repeatedly an- tinues to target innocent ci- Iran’s parliament gave initial ap- In addition, former FBI agent Rob- nounced actions in viola- vilians for use as pawns in proval to a measure requiring school ert Levinson is believed to be held by tion of the deal, trying to its failed foreign relations,” books to inform students about Iran, although his circumstances are pressure its European sig- White House press secre- “America’s crimes.” Lawmakers also unknown.