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Senator Bernie Sanders

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Sen. Sanders of Vermont, Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions, is the longest-serving independent in congressional history.

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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 05/05/2026
Big Oil is making a $30 million windfall profit every HOUR by using the Iran War as an excuse to rip off commuters at the gas pump. This year, Exxon will be spending $20 billion of its profits on stock buybacks. We must end the Iran War and pass a windfall profits tax — NOW!
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 04/05/2026
In 1933, Justice Louis Brandeis said: “We can have democracy in this country or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of the few, but we cannot have both.” What he said was true 93 years ago. It’s even more accurate today. Let us choose democracy over oligarchy.
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 30/04/2026
The world’s leading scientists are warning that AI could “end civilization as we know it.” 97% of Americans believe AI safety should be subject to rules. When will our government wake up?! We need global cooperation — before it’s too late.
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 30/04/2026
I enjoyed speaking with hunger and nutrition advocates from Vermont this week. In the richest country in the history of the world, nobody should be going hungry. I thank these advocates for their tireless efforts.
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 29/04/2026
Ex-OpenAI board member Helen Toner says AI companies are "deadly serious" about building machines that outperform humans at everything and they don’t know if they’ll be able to control them.   So why hasn’t Congress taken meaningful action to regulate AI?
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 29/04/2026
We need healthcare and affordable housing for all Americans, not taxpayer funding for war crimes.
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 28/04/2026
The FCC is now threatening ABC's broadcast licenses, days after Donald Trump and Melania Trump demanded they fire Jimmy Kimmel. This is straight out of the authoritarian playbook. Mr. President: Read the Constitution. Freedom of speech is the First Amendment for good reason.
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 21/04/2026
Trump is considering a large bailout for a multibillionaire dictator while he cuts health care for 15 million Americans. This is insane. The working families of the United States need help, not one of the richest families in the world.
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 20/04/2026
In the 1990s, the working class of this country was told that unfettered free trade would create millions of new jobs and raise wages. As many of us understood then, that claim was a lie. Now they’re being sold the same false promises about AI.
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 20/04/2026
Dockworkers on the West Coast broke every productivity record — and are now being replaced by AI anyway. This isn’t about efficiency. It’s about eliminating workers. youtu.be/35CDCU5chKE?...
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This isn’t about efficiency. It’s about eliminating workers.
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 16/04/2026
Today, more than 80% of the Democratic caucus stood with the American people and voted to block U.S. military aid to Netanyahu and his horrific, illegal wars.
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 15/04/2026
I'm proud to support the nurses at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago who are fighting to form a union. If RUMC can pay its CEO over $4 million a year, it can afford to provide better working conditions for nurses & staffing levels that are safe for their patients.
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 15/04/2026
For Netanyahu, the war in Gaza was not enough. Iran was not enough. He is now waging a full-blown war of expansion in Lebanon. The time is long overdue for Congress to listen to the American people and end U.S. military aid to the extremist Israeli government.
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 13/04/2026
This week, I will be forcing a vote on legislation to block the sale of nearly half a billion dollars worth of bombs and bulldozers to the Israeli military. The extremist Netanyahu government that has committed genocide in Gaza does not need more military support from American taxpayers.
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 07/04/2026
It is very easy to become accustomed to Trump’s ravings, and laugh them off. That’s a dangerous thing to do. When Trump states: “A whole civilization will die tonight,” he is threatening to commit genocide. We can’t allow that to happen. Congress must end this war NOW.
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 06/04/2026
The American people do not want endless war.
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 04/04/2026
Trump’s obscene budget.
Last year, while the billionaire class became much richer as the working class struggled to survive, Trump gave a $1 trillion tax break to the 1% and paid for it by throwing 15 million Americans off the health care they desperately need.

This year, while Trump and Netanyahu started a war in Iran, the president wants to increase military spending by $500 billion and pay for that war by reducing funding for childcare, health care, affordable housing and other domestic needs. 

This is what Trump’s agenda is all about: making himself and his fellow Oligarchs even richer, while decimating programs that working families, the elderly and the children rely on.

That is an obscene set of priorities. Congress must reject this proposal and pass a budget that works for all of us, not just the 1%.
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 03/04/2026
70% think AI will lead to fewer jobs. They are right. We can’t allow a handful of billionaires, eager to increase their wealth and power, to rush forward with a technology that will fundamentally transform humanity without democratic input or accountability.
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 02/04/2026
Mr. President: I have a better idea. Instead of spending over a trillion dollars on never-ending wars abroad while plunging the working class into poverty here at home, let’s invest in universal childcare, Medicare for All and affordable housing. America first!
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 01/04/2026
Let me congratulate AFA-CWA & the Flight Attendants at United Airlines on a historic tentative agreement. After years of fighting a billion-dollar company, they have won their first raises in 6 years to be the highest paid in the industry & will finally be paid for boarding.
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 01/04/2026
We can no longer tolerate a rigged tax code that enables billionaires to pay a lower effective tax rate than the average worker & corporations like Tesla & Palantir to pay ZERO in federal income taxes while making billions in profits. Yes. The wealthy must pay their fair share.
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 31/03/2026
74% of Americans now say the government isn’t doing enough to regulate AI. They’re right. That’s why I introduced a moratorium bill - to give us time to address the risks and to ensure that this technology works for all of us, not just the billionaires who own it.
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 30/03/2026
Mayor Mamdani is right. Families in New York City deserve free child care. But it’s not just New York. Instead of giving tax breaks to billionaires, Congress must pass a universal child care bill to guarantee high-quality child care for every American family.
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 27/03/2026
WHY ARE WE IN IRAN?
How many times can we “obliterate “ Iran’s nuclear capabilities?

How many years will Iran be “weeks away” from attacking the U.S.?

How many wars can Netanyahu get us into?

How many centuries will countries continue fighting religious wars?

How many trillions must be spent to feed the military industrial complex?

How many innocent men, women and children must be killed and displaced from their homes?

END THIS WAR NOW
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 26/03/2026
Call me a radical, but NO. We should not be replacing teachers in America with robots. We should attract the best and brightest in our country to become teachers and pay them the decent wages that they deserve.
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 26/03/2026
Today, 3,800 meatpacking workers in Greeley, CO are striking against JBS — the world's largest meat processing company — over dangerous conditions and impossible line speeds. JBS made $2B in profits last year. Yes, they can afford to keep workers safe.
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 23/03/2026
Jeff Bezos, worth $233 billion, wants to raise $100 billion to replace factory workers with robots. That’s a declaration of war against the working class. He must explain to the American people what happens when millions lose their jobs. How will they survive?
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 22/03/2026
In America today, wealth inequality has become so extreme that the top 1% now own as much stock and mutual funds as the bottom 99% combined. No democracy is sustainable when so few have so much while so many have so little. We need an economy that works for all, not the 1%.
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 20/03/2026
Jeff Bezos, one of the richest men on earth, is raising $100 billion to replace workers with robots around the world. The oligarchs want it all. Not going to happen. Stand up and FIGHT BACK.
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 20/03/2026
The US is spending more than $1 trillion on the military for the first time in history. That apparently isn't enough. Now, the Pentagon wants $200 billion more for an illegal war in Iran. The answer is NO. We need to invest in the American people, not endless war.
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 20/03/2026
I spoke to Anthropic’s AI agent Claude about AI collecting massive amounts of personal data and how that information is being used to violate our privacy rights. What an AI agent says about the dangers of AI is shocking and should wake us up. youtu.be/h3AtWdeu_G0?...
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 19/03/2026
Given the horrific destruction that Israel’s extremist government has wrought on Gaza, Iran and Lebanon, the last thing in the world American taxpayers need to do right now is to provide 22,000 new bombs to the Netanyahu government. No more weapons to support an illegal war.
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Bernie Sanders to force disapproval votes over U.S. arms sales to Israel
“No more weapons to support an illegal war,” the senator said in a statement.
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 17/03/2026
Trump and his friends are in political trouble. Their response? Make it harder for you to vote and disenfranchise tens of millions of Americans. Trump said it out loud: If they pass the SAVE Act, Republicans will "never lose a race for 50 years.” Vote NO.
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 17/03/2026
The war in Iran has already cost $22.8 billion. For $22.8 billion, we could: • Provide Medicaid to 6.8 million kids • Build 2.6 million public housing units • Fund Head Start for 1.3 million • Hire 240,000 teachers • Cancel $20,000 in student debt for 1 million borrowers
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 17/03/2026
Wealth inequality has never been so bad. While 60% live paycheck to paycheck, 938 billionaires got $1.5T richer in 2025. Justice Brandeis was right: "We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both."
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 16/03/2026
While the billionaire class is getting richer and richer, Gallup reports that 33% of Americans are cutting back on food, utilities and prescription drugs because of the high cost of health care. We need an economy that works for all, not just the 1%. We need Medicare for All.
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 13/03/2026
Trump is a demagogue who not only targets Democrats with bogus criminal charges, but goes after conservative Republicans like Fed Chair Jerome Powell. Powell’s “crime”? He didn't bow to Trump. Today, a judge appropriately blocked the Justice Department from issuing subpoenas.
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 13/03/2026
We should all be outraged by the recent attack on the synagogue in West Bloomfield, Michigan. This is part of a growing tide of antisemitism in our country. As Americans, we must stand together and fight antisemitism, Islamophobia and all forms of racism and bigotry.
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 11/03/2026
On Saturday, Trump told us the attack on an elementary school in Iran that killed 175 people – mostly children – “was done by Iran.” Now the U.S. military admits it was a U.S. strike. If they are lying about something as obvious as this, what else are they lying about?
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 10/03/2026
No. Might does not make right.
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 09/03/2026
I am delighted that dogs are able to receive high-quality health care. But what about humans? In America today, 85 million are uninsured or under-insured. Health care must be considered a human right. We need Medicare for All, NOW.
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 08/03/2026
Walk into a sandwich shop. It’s regulated for health and safety. But AI, which will transform the world economically and socially, is completely unregulated. That’s insane. We need to make certain that AI works for ALL humanity, not just the billionaires who own it.
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 04/03/2026
Will AI become smarter than humans? If so, is humanity in danger? I went to Silicon Valley to ask some of the leading AI experts that question. Here’s what they had to say:
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AI Expert Tells Bernie: “The Humans will be Discarded”
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 03/03/2026
The United States gave Netanyahu over $24 billion in taxpayer dollars to fund his horrific war in Gaza. That wasn't enough. Netanyahu wanted war with Iran. Trump gave him one. The American people — not Netanyahu’s right-wing government — should determine U.S. foreign policy.
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 03/03/2026
Musk, worth $829 billion, owns X. Bezos, worth $234 billion, owns The Washington Post & Twitch. Zuckerberg, worth $231 billion, owns Facebook, Instagram & WhatsApp. And now Larry Ellison, worth $202 billion, is about to control CNN, CBS, TikTok & HBO. Yes, this is oligarchy.
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 03/03/2026
Surprise! The Jeff Bezos-owned Washington Post is against my 5% billionaire wealth tax. I wonder why? If enacted, Bezos would owe $12 billion in taxes, and an average family of 4 would receive a $12,000 direct payment. Poor Jeff would be left with just $224 billion to survive.
Bernie Sander’s 2028 litmus test would strangle America’s golden goose
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 02/03/2026
President Trump was right in 2020: "We've spent $8 trillion in the Middle East and we're not fixing our roads in this country? How stupid. How stupid is it? And we're not fixing our tunnels, our bridges, our hospitals, our schools? It's crazy."
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 02/03/2026
Israel & Saudi Arabia pushed the U.S. to attack Iran. Netanyahu killed 72,000 people in Gaza, mostly women & children. Saudi Arabia is a brutal dictatorship that allows no opposition. These are the leaders who want to bring “freedom” to Iran? Does anyone really believe that?
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 28/02/2026
The U.S. Senate must be clear: no war with Iran.
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