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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 · 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 · 21/04/2026
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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 · 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
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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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
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 · 28/02/2026
The U.S. Senate must be clear: no war with Iran.
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 27/02/2026
I don’t agree with the Trump administration on much but Dr. Means, his nominee for Surgeon General, is right when she says we should ban TV ads for junk food. Obesity is a national crisis and the corporate food industry is largely responsible.
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 25/02/2026
The overwhelming scientific evidence is clear: vaccines do not cause autism. So why couldn’t Trump’s nominee for Surgeon General simply say that?
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 23/02/2026
Yes. We need a moratorium on data center construction.
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 20/02/2026
Do you think Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos are investing in AI to help the working class of this country? No, they’re in it to accumulate even more wealth and power for themselves. We’ve got to make AI work for working people, not just for billionaires.
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 17/02/2026
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 12/02/2026
Electricity, the automobile, radio, TV, computers, the internet—all changed the way we live. But they pale in comparison to the revolution AI will bring about. The question is: who benefits? It must work for working families, not just billionaires.
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 11/02/2026
Dialysis provider Fresenius paid its CEO $4.8 million in 2024—then fired nurse Alan Faustino for speaking out about working conditions. Fresenius, DaVita, USRenalCare, SatelliteHealth: Union-busting has no place in health care. Bargain in good faith. Reinstate him.
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 11/02/2026
If this is the “greatest economy in the history of the world,” as Donald Trump claims, God help us.
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 04/02/2026
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 04/02/2026
What should alarm us about the Epstein files isn’t just the appalling details, which are horrific and criminal. It’s that here is a growing sense that there is small number of elite who see themselves as above the law.
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 03/02/2026
We are now facing the largest measles outbreak since the disease was eliminated from the United States over a quarter-century ago. The science is clear: vaccines are the best way to protect against measles. The NIH Director admits it. Why won’t RFK, Jr.?
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 01/02/2026
ICE is no longer an immigration enforcement agency. It has become Trump’s domestic army. If my “conservative” colleagues truly believe in small government, they should join us in demanding an end to masked federal agents terrorizing communities across this country.
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 31/01/2026
I promised the people of Vermont that I would not support another penny for ICE unless there were fundamental reforms to how that agency operates, and tonight I kept my word.
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 29/01/2026
Kristi Noem AND Stephen Miller must go.
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 27/01/2026
While the billionaire class gets obscenely richer, two-thirds of Americans say a middle-class lifestyle is out of reach , and a majority can’t afford decent education, housing or a secure retirement. In the richest country on Earth, we can, and must, do better.
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 26/01/2026
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 23/01/2026
This is authoritarianism, plain and simple. The Trump administration is targeting states that didn’t vote for him — including my home state of Vermont. Using federal power to punish political opponents is anti-democratic and blatantly illegal.
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 22/01/2026
Together, we must defend democracy and defeat authoritarianism.
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 21/01/2026
The idea that a U.S. president would threaten to invade Greenland because Norway didn’t give him a Nobel Prize is pathetic. This has nothing to do with foreign policy. It’s a president acting like a narcissistic spoiled child because his feelings got hurt. Unacceptable.
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 20/01/2026
Given the dysfunctional political environment, I’m proud we reached a health care deal that provides the largest increase in community health center funding in a decade, expands the health care workforce, lowers drug costs and strengthens vital cancer research for kids.
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 15/01/2026
We hear a lot of talk about “freedom” from my Republican colleagues. And yet these same Republicans are working overtime to deny tens of millions of women the basic freedom to control their own bodies. That is wrong, and it represents a fundamental betrayal of what freedom is about.
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 13/01/2026
For Trump to put his name on the Kennedy Center and other federal buildings is not only arrogant and narcissistic, it is illegal. We must put an end to sitting presidents naming buildings after themselves — and that’s what my bill does.
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 12/01/2026
Trump’s persecution of Jerome Powell and his political opponents must end.
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 06/01/2026
Our health care system is collapsing. Housing is unaffordable. 60% of people are living paycheck to paycheck. Instead of trying to "run" Venezuela, Trump might try to do a better job running the United States.
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 05/01/2026
Six reasons why Trump’s attack on Venezuela was very wrong:
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 03/01/2026
Trump campaigned on an “America First” platform. Now he wants to "run" Venezuela? 60% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck. Health care is collapsing. Housing is unaffordable. Trump should address these major crises at home and end his illegal military adventurism abroad.
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