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Bernie Sanders
1 day ago: Thursday Jun 30 - 11:33am
President Biden is absolutely right. Senate Democrats must end the filibuster and codify the right to an abortion NOW. If you allow the broken rules of the Senate to stand in the way of guaranteeing basic rights for our people, you don’t really stand for those rights. https://t.co/WMiXeWa34m
Bernie Sanders
1 day ago: Wednesday Jun 29 - 10:50pm
At a time when half of older Americans have no retirement savings and are worried about their ability to retire with dignity and millions of seniors are living in poverty, our job is not to cut Social Security. Our job must be to expand Social Security. https://t.co/zVX9tQtDI6
Bernie Sanders
2 days ago: Wednesday Jun 29 - 11:47am
The American people are sick of airlines ripping them off, canceling flights at the last minute and delaying flights for hours on end. It's time for @SecretaryPete to fine airlines $55,000 per passenger for every flight cancellation they know can’t be fully staffed. https://t.co/NE7H03U9QU
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Bernie Sanders
6 days ago: Saturday Jun 25 - 1:02pm
Big Oil's 1st Quarter Profit in 2022: $35 billion Average Price of Gas today: $4.91 Big Oil's 1st Quarter Profit in 2019: $13.8 billion Average Gas Price: $2.69 Big Oil's 1st Quarter Profit in 2015: $13.1 billion Average Gas Price: $2.41 Yes. We need a windfall profits tax.
Bernie Sanders
1 week ago: Friday Jun 24 - 12:04pm
Overturning Roe v. Wade and denying women the right to control their own bodies is an outrage and in defiance of what the American people want. Democrats must now end the filibuster in the Senate, codify Roe v. Wade, and once again make abortion legal and safe.
Bernie Sanders
1 week ago: Thursday Jun 23 - 7:29pm
It’s time for a windfall profits tax. https://t.co/slDwljhPyS
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Bernie Sanders
1 week ago: Thursday Jun 23 - 3:02pm
In 2020, 45,000 Americans died from gun-related injuries. We’ve recently seen horrific mass shootings in Buffalo and Texas. The Supreme Court’s response: loosen gun safety laws. Six justices are way out of touch with reality.
Bernie Sanders
1 week ago: Monday Jun 20 - 4:43pm
In the French elections, given the choice between progressives who want to increase taxes on the rich, or right-wing extremists who are viciously anti-immigrant, the pro-business "centrist" party of Macron just couldn't make a choice. There's a lesson to be learned here.
Bernie Sanders
1 week ago: Sunday Jun 19 - 2:49pm
Understanding the horrors and lasting legacy of slavery is a critical step to making the changes we need in our world today. Today, on Juneteenth, we must recommit to building a nation based on justice and compassion.
Bernie Sanders
1 week ago: Sunday Jun 19 - 12:48pm
$2.5 billion in federal funding went to Moderna. The company’s CEO then received a $926 million golden parachute. Does that make any sense to you? https://t.co/Dp2ALVRNc6
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Bernie Sanders
1 week ago: Saturday Jun 18 - 9:06am
Last year, 3 of the biggest pharmaceutical companies in America – Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson and AbbVie – increased their profits by 90 percent to $54 billion – while half of the new brand name drugs now cost over $180,000. Obscene.
Bernie Sanders
2 weeks ago: Thursday Jun 16 - 10:21am
The Democratic Party cannot continue to ignore the needs of the working class of our country and expect to retain majority control in the US House and US Senate. It’s time to show which side we’re on. It’s time to start voting. https://t.co/4ZP0MkQuym
Bernie Sanders
2 weeks ago: Wednesday Jun 15 - 4:21pm
LIVE: I'm on the floor of the Senate to respond to Sen. Rand Paul's budget proposal that calls for tax breaks for the wealthy and massive cuts to programs the American people need. https://t.co/sFHn6mpOOA
Bernie Sanders
2 weeks ago: Wednesday Jun 15 - 1:29pm
Today, someone who makes $147,000 a year pays the same amount of Social Security taxes as a millionaire or billionaire. Does that make sense to you? https://t.co/lhy4yGAIEx
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Bernie Sanders
2 weeks ago: Wednesday Jun 15 - 10:33am
President Biden is absolutely right. The big oil companies are making obscene profits gouging working Americans at an unprecedented level. Democrats in Congress should support the president’s fight against their greed and enact a windfall profits tax NOW. https://t.co/gzAvnnhunh
Bernie Sanders
2 weeks ago: Tuesday Jun 14 - 7:29pm
Right now, there are 1,500 paid lobbyists from both parties in Washington working overtime to make sure we don’t represent our constituents who are dying and are sick and tired of paying outrageous prices for prescription drugs. What a disgrace. https://t.co/rnNnPIfNKG
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Bernie Sanders
2 weeks ago: Saturday Jun 11 - 3:00pm
When I was a kid growing up in Brooklyn, I obsessively followed the Brooklyn Dodgers. As mayor of Burlington, I helped bring minor league baseball back to the city. Today's team is the @VTLakeMonsters and I had the honor of throwing out the first pitch on opening day this year. https://t.co/WhXQrdaN2H
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Bernie Sanders
2 weeks ago: Saturday Jun 11 - 1:35pm
Ban the sale and distribution of assault weapons. Prohibit high-capacity magazines. Expand background checks. End the gun show loophole. If we can’t get 60 votes in the Senate, then we must end the filibuster.
Bernie Sanders
2 weeks ago: Saturday Jun 11 - 10:49am
Making Gaza's beaches safe for swimming is a small but important step in addressing Gaza's environmental and humanitarian crisis. We must continue to bring people together for these efforts in Palestine and across the region. https://t.co/zIsozf3ouG
Bernie Sanders
3 weeks ago: Friday Jun 10 - 1:59pm
Greed. Greed. Greed. Since 2008, the median price for new brand name drugs soared from $2,115 to $180,000 while 3 pharmaceutical companies made $54 billion in profits last year. How many more people need to die before Congress has the guts to take on the pharmaceutical industry?
Bernie Sanders
3 weeks ago: Friday Jun 10 - 11:56am
The January 6th hearings remind us that politics today is not a debate over ideas. It's about whether we maintain our democratic form of government against those who propagate a Big Lie, violence and authoritarianism.
Bernie Sanders
3 weeks ago: Thursday Jun 9 - 4:44pm
It is absurd that a billionaire in America today pays the same amount of Social Security taxes as someone making $147,000 a year. It is time to scrap the cap, expand benefits, and fully fund Social Security. https://t.co/VRKzxWjTIv
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Bernie Sanders
3 weeks ago: Thursday Jun 9 - 4:01pm
RT @SenWarren: Social Security is a lifeline for Americans—but many seniors are struggling with rising costs. As Republicans try to phase out Social Security & raise taxes on hardworking Americans, I'm working w/ @SenSanders to expand Social Security by making the wealthy pay their fair share.
Bernie Sanders
3 weeks ago: Thursday Jun 9 - 11:03am
LIVE: At a time when half of older Americans have no retirement savings and millions of senior citizens are living in poverty, our job is to expand Social Security by demanding the wealthy pay their fair share. https://t.co/sEGOhQvkuF
Bernie Sanders
3 weeks ago: Wednesday Jun 8 - 6:59pm
Let me be clear: Every American must be able to retire with dignity. Period. Join me Tomorrow at 11 a.m. ET for a hearing in the Senate Budget Committee to discuss how we must save and expand Social Security – not cut it.
Bernie Sanders
3 weeks ago: Wednesday Jun 8 - 1:35pm
Our nation’s veterans have earned quality health care. I’m LIVE on the floor of the Senate to urge my colleagues to strengthen the VA so no veteran is left behind. https://t.co/IPzMs3i2CJ
Bernie Sanders
3 weeks ago: Tuesday Jun 7 - 12:18pm
The time is long overdue to legalize marijuana nationally, expunge past marijuana convictions and ensure revenue from legal marijuana is reinvested in the communities most impacted by the failed war on drugs.
Bernie Sanders
3 weeks ago: Monday Jun 6 - 5:11pm
RT @RepCori: Proud to see @POTUS invoke the Defense Production Act to invest in renewable energy. Now Congress must pass my Energy Security and Independence Act with @SenSanders & @RepJasonCrow to fund this effort, lower energy prices, create jobs, and fight the climate crisis. https://t.co/wRDcp5JhHp
Bernie Sanders
3 weeks ago: Sunday Jun 5 - 11:28am
In the richest country in the history of the world, no senior should live in poverty and every American should be able to retire in dignity after a lifetime of hard work. Yes, it’s time expand Social Security.
Bernie Sanders
3 weeks ago: Saturday Jun 4 - 11:43am
I must confess that I love diners. I have not eaten at every diner in Vermont, but I've been to most. They're unpretentious, the food is good, the prices are right and the staff are friendly. Join us on a visit to the Blue Benn in Bennington. https://t.co/8LRxeZYgdF
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Bernie Sanders
4 weeks ago: Friday Jun 3 - 12:21pm
1 in 7 older Americans rely on Social Security for more than 90% of their income. Maybe, just maybe, instead of cutting Social Security, we should expand it.
Bernie Sanders
4 weeks ago: Thursday Jun 2 - 12:47pm
The time for endless talk is over. We must vote on Build Back Better THIS MONTH. Let those who are opposed explain why. The vast majority in our caucus deserve a chance to show they can stand up to powerful special interests and represent working families. We must vote NOW.
Bernie Sanders
1 month ago: Wednesday Jun 1 - 2:56pm
Sen. Manchin is right. Let’s cut drug prices in half by strengthening the provision in the House-passed Build Back Better legislation to allow Medicare to negotiate drug prices like the VA has done for years, and pass the whole package with 50 votes next week. It's time to vote. https://t.co/WZKyNdGfBW
Bernie Sanders
1 month ago: Wednesday Jun 1 - 2:20pm
Yes, it is more important to protect the babies of this country than the huge CEO compensation packages and stock buybacks of an infant formula company that lied to the FDA. That’s not a radical idea. https://t.co/3GYzQi1cfL
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Bernie Sanders
1 month ago: Tuesday May 31 - 2:14pm
Cancel it. Every penny. https://t.co/VkRUiAj5pw
Bernie Sanders
1 month ago: Monday May 30 - 8:04am
Today, Memorial Day, we honor the brave men and women who gave their lives to defend our country. Their sacrifices will never be forgotten.
Bernie Sanders
1 month ago: Friday May 27 - 6:07pm
Congratulations to Starbucks Workers United for winning the 100th union election at Starbucks coffee shops all over America. I say to Howard Schultz: Stop the union busting. Obey the law. Negotiate a fair contract with your workers now – no more delays. Enough is enough.
Bernie Sanders
1 month ago: Wednesday May 25 - 11:26am
Enough is enough. We must abolish the filibuster and pass gun safety legislation NOW. No one in America needs an AR-15. How many more children, mothers and fathers need to be murdered in cold blood before the Senate has the guts to ban assault weapons and take on the NRA?
Bernie Sanders
1 month ago: Wednesday May 25 - 9:23am
It is tragic but unsurprising that Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny will be sent to prison for 9 years. Putin’s authoritarian regime cannot tolerate dissent, especially from someone who exposes the enormous wealth Putin and his cronies have stolen from the Russian people.
Bernie Sanders
1 month ago: Tuesday May 24 - 6:46pm
The horrific rampage in TX once again makes clear that there are some very sick people in this country with guns in their hands who should not have them. Congress may not be able to end this problem, but we must at least pass commonsense gun reforms to finally protect the public.
Bernie Sanders
1 month ago: Monday May 23 - 10:43pm
When I think about the gathering of billionaires at Davos at a time of obscene income and wealth inequality I recall what Dr. King said: “God never intended for one group of people to live in superfluous inordinate wealth, while others live in abject deadening poverty.”
Bernie Sanders
1 month ago: Monday May 23 - 4:53pm
No government – not the federal government, not the state government and not the city government – should be handing out corporate welfare to union busters and labor law violators.
Bernie Sanders
1 month ago: Monday May 23 - 1:43pm
The oligarchs in Davos party, the poor suffer. While 260 million people throughout the world will likely be pushed into extreme poverty this year – trying to survive on less than $2 a day – over 2,000 billionaires across the globe became $3.78 trillion richer during the pandemic.
Bernie Sanders
1 month ago: Monday May 23 - 1:07pm
Per capita spending on health care: 🇬🇧: $5,268 🇨🇦: $5,370 🇫🇷: $5,564 🇺🇸: $12,530 How does it happen that we spend so much money for health care, but get so little in return?
Bernie Sanders
1 month ago: Thursday May 19 - 1:02pm
This is what a rigged and corrupt system looks like. Effective Tax Rate: 0.1%: Warren Buffett worth $111 billion 1.1%: Jeff Bezos worth $131 billion 1.8% Mike Bloomberg worth $82 billion 2.1%: Elon Musk worth $210 billion 13.5%: Registered Nurse Yes. It's time to #TaxTheRich
Bernie Sanders
1 month ago: Tuesday May 17 - 10:16am
The loudest voices in the Republican Party demanding that women be forced to give birth against their will are exactly the same people who oppose virtually every effort here in Congress designed to improve life for children and their mothers. https://t.co/kK2ehYmIoo
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Bernie Sanders
1 month ago: Saturday May 14 - 10:55pm
This act of domestic terrorism by a racist, anti-Semitic white supremacist using an AR-15 should be a call to action. Let us finally pass common sense gun safety reforms. We cannot grow numb to this violence, and we must show our nation can come together to address this hatred. https://t.co/YKXIWlqaPk
Bernie Sanders
1 month ago: Saturday May 14 - 2:08pm
No, Mr. Bezos. Disinformation is Amazon spreading anti-union propaganda & forcing workers to attend illegal captive audience meetings. Disinformation is Amazon blaming a 17% price increase on "inflation" while making a record $35 billion in profits & avoiding $5 billion in taxes. https://t.co/voJEB4ZTFR
Bernie Sanders
1 month ago: Friday May 13 - 2:05pm
The attack by Israeli forces against mourners at the funeral of Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh is an outrage. The United States must condemn this, and demand an independent investigation into her killing.
Bernie Sanders
1 month ago: Friday May 13 - 1:14pm
Greed. Greed. Greed. While Americans are struggling at the pump, in the first three months of this year, 21 oil and gas companies made over $41 billion in profits, more than double their profits from last year. The problem is not inflation. The problem is corporate greed.
Bernie Sanders
1 month ago: Friday May 13 - 9:21am
The United States has the most dysfunctional, inefficient, bureaucratic and expensive health care system in the world. It’s time for Medicare for All. https://t.co/rGwE13J45i
Bernie Sanders
1 month ago: Thursday May 12 - 3:32pm
It is not acceptable that 68,000 Americans die each year because they cannot afford the health care they desperately need. It’s time to end this international embarrassment. It’s time to guarantee health care in the United States to all. It’s time for Medicare for All. https://t.co/BDdEnoN3cy
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Bernie Sanders
1 month ago: Thursday May 12 - 11:03am
LIVE: No more insurance premiums. No more deductibles. No more co-payments. Health care is right, not a privilege. It’s time for Medicare for All. https://t.co/usC3ArZYIa
Bernie Sanders
1 month ago: Thursday May 12 - 9:30am
Today at 11am ET, we will hold the first ever hearing in a full committee of the U.S. Senate on Medicare for All. Health care is a right, not a privilege. https://t.co/NGGDheDApP
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Bernie Sanders
1 month ago: Wednesday May 11 - 5:09pm
If you can’t stand up for a woman’s right to choose, for voting rights, for an economy that works for all, why are you caucusing with the Senate Democrats? We need a Democratic Majority where all members believe in economic, racial, social and environmental justice.
Bernie Sanders
1 month ago: Wednesday May 11 - 1:13pm
It is no great secret that women throughout the history of our country have had to fight for their basic human rights against all forms of patriarchy, so today let us be absolutely clear: When it comes to women’s rights, we cannot go backwards. We must go forward. https://t.co/vElVw1lSHJ
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Bernie Sanders
1 month ago: Tuesday May 10 - 8:18pm
I'm LIVE on the floor of the U.S. Senate to demand we end the filibuster and protect the constitutional right to have an abortion. https://t.co/xowPEHsfcy
Bernie Sanders
1 month ago: Tuesday May 10 - 4:56pm
I'll be on the floor of U.S. Senate TONIGHT at 8pm ET to talk about why we must end the filibuster and protect the constitutional right to have an abortion.
Bernie Sanders
1 month ago: Tuesday May 10 - 12:21pm
RT @AbdulElSayed: Grateful to @SenSanders for calling a hearing of the Senate Budget Committee on Medicare for All & for the invitation to participate as a witness to share insights about how M4A would protect health, save lives, & save money. Make@sure to tune in: https://t.co/BAAUHf8cTx
Bernie Sanders
1 month ago: Tuesday May 10 - 12:21pm
RT @awgaffney: This Thursday, @SenSanders is holding a hearing on Medicare for All in the Budget Committee. I’m excited to testify alongside @AbdulElSayed & @NNUBonnie. The need for fundamental healthcare reform has never been so urgent. https://t.co/xr3V44RcLg
Bernie Sanders
1 month ago: Tuesday May 10 - 10:47am
Estimates show that nearly 27 million Americans and their families lost their health care coverage when they lost their jobs due to COVID-19. Let me be clear: health care is a human right, not a job benefit. Yes. It’s time for Medicare for All.
Bernie Sanders
1 month ago: Monday May 9 - 5:08pm
We spend twice as much per capita on health care as any other nation but with worse health outcomes for our people. Does that make sense to anyone? It’s time for Medicare for All.
Bernie Sanders
1 month ago: Monday May 9 - 12:25pm
If Republicans can end the filibuster to install right wing judges nominated by presidents who lost the popular vote in order to overturn Roe v. Wade, Democrats can and must end the filibuster to keep abortion legal and safe.
Bernie Sanders
1 month ago: Friday May 6 - 9:27pm
This is what Oligarchy and corporate greed are all about. Two large and profitable corporations, owned by billionaires, spend millions to illegally deny their workers the right to organize. No corporation that breaks the law should get a federal contract. https://t.co/uOky6yO3kz
Bernie Sanders
1 month ago: Friday May 6 - 4:07pm
Congratulations to the resident doctors at UVM, UMass and Stanford who have voted, overwhelmingly, to unionize. These doctors believe its unfair to their patients and themselves when they are forced to work up to 80 hours a week at very inadequate pay. They're right.
Bernie Sanders
1 month ago: Friday May 6 - 2:57pm
Taxpayer dollars should not go to multibillion dollar companies that violate labor laws. Period. https://t.co/Ne52zVxXAn
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Bernie Sanders
1 month ago: Thursday May 5 - 9:02pm
It may be news to @LindseyGrahamSC, but Amazon has a 150% percent turnover rate. Workers come into the warehouses, they are worked as hard as humanly possible, and they leave, often crushed. Is this really a business model that should be rewarded with federal contracts? https://t.co/l4zNc9YwYP
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Bernie Sanders
1 month ago: Thursday May 5 - 5:44pm
Congratulations to President Biden for having the courage to do what no president in modern history has done. He is standing with union organizers who are helping to grow the trade union movement. This is an important step forward for working families. Let's go forward together. https://t.co/tOmG93lcwI
Bernie Sanders
1 month ago: Thursday May 5 - 11:15am
No government – not the federal government, not the state government and not the city government - should be handing out corporate welfare to union busters and labor law violators. https://t.co/qEZx3hRqrR
Bernie Sanders
1 month ago: Thursday May 5 - 11:05am
LIVE: Taxpayer dollars should not go to companies like Amazon and multi-billionaires like Jeff Bezos who repeatedly break the law. https://t.co/qEZx3hRqrR
Bernie Sanders
1 month ago: Thursday May 5 - 10:58am
RT @Teamsters: Teamsters General President Sean M. O'Brien is looking forward to this important hearing with @SenSanders & @Shut_downAmazon set to begin at 11am this morning. Watch live: https://t.co/rsaDauaFNN #1u #Amazon https://t.co/oS0lp6kIIg
Bernie Sanders
1 month ago: Thursday May 5 - 9:27am
The Senate Budget Committee will be joined TODAY by @Teamsters President Sean O'Brien, @Shut_downAmazon and others for a hearing on why taxpayer dollars should not go to companies like Amazon and billionaires like Jeff Bezos who repeatedly break the law. Join us LIVE at 11am ET.
Bernie Sanders
1 month ago: Wednesday May 4 - 11:45pm
Clearly, Jeff Bezos, the second wealthiest person on the planet, desperately needs $10 billion from the American taxpayer to go to the moon. After all, he is only worth $150 billion. https://t.co/USSEfTJwfH
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Bernie Sanders
1 month ago: Wednesday May 4 - 8:19pm
We have strange priorities in the Senate. We can’t extend the child tax credit. We can’t deal with the crisis in child care. We can’t take on climate change. But somehow we can provide a massive amount of corporate welfare to a handful of corporations. Totally absurd. https://t.co/AZtNd8HXDA
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Bernie Sanders
1 month ago: Wednesday May 4 - 2:30pm
If Mr. Bezos wants to go to the moon, wants to go to Mars, wants to go to Saturn, that’s his right. But he does not have the right to ask the taxpayers of this country for $10 billion to help him make his trip to outer space.
Bernie Sanders
1 month ago: Wednesday May 4 - 1:06pm
In my view, it makes zero sense for Congress to hand a $52 billion check to the microchip industry, no strings attached. This is an industry that said ‘Hey, let’s throw hundreds of thousands of American workers out on the street to make more money in low-wage countries.’ Absurd.
Bernie Sanders
1 month ago: Wednesday May 4 - 11:09am
RT @Teamsters: #Teamsters agree 💯 Don't miss this must-watch @SenateBudget Committee hearing tomorrow w/ #Teamsters General Pres. Sean M. O'Brien @SenSanders @GoodJobsFirst & @amazonlabor on ending Fed. contracts to companies engaged in illegal anti-union activities: https://t.co/pQIuLCfxwv https://t.co/2iTQuSRhyC
Bernie Sanders
1 month ago: Monday May 2 - 9:38pm
Congress must pass legislation that codifies Roe v. Wade as the law of the land in this country NOW. And if there aren’t 60 votes in the Senate to do it, and there are not, we must end the filibuster to pass it with 50 votes.
Bernie Sanders
1 month ago: Monday May 2 - 7:24pm
Eid Mubarak to all of our Muslim friends around the world.
Bernie Sanders
2 months ago: Monday May 2 - 11:28am
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? I don’t think so. The Senate will hold a vote this week to stop it. https://t.co/cz0yqkiukP
Bernie Sanders
2 months ago: Sunday May 1 - 9:40pm
In Denmark, as a result of strong unions, McDonald's workers make $22 an hour, get 6 weeks paid vacation & 1 year of paid leave. In the US, 58% of McDonald's workers make less than $12 an hour & no benefits while its CEO makes $20 million. Every worker needs a union. #MayDay2022
Bernie Sanders
2 months ago: Sunday May 1 - 3:30pm
While Vermont continues to lead the nation in syrup production, many studies are telling us that the climate crisis is threatening the industry. Now, more than ever, it’s important that we protect not only our planet, but also long-held and beloved practices, like sugaring. https://t.co/SsHssk4rYl
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Bernie Sanders
2 months ago: Sunday May 1 - 2:43pm
I want wish each and every one of you a very happy May Day. When working people in our country and around the world come together, there is nothing that can stop us in the struggle for justice.
Bernie Sanders
2 months ago: Friday Apr 29 - 12:58pm
In the last 3 months, as gas prices soared, Exxon Mobil doubled its profit to $5.5 billion. Instead of increasing supply or expanding production, what did Exxon do? Triple its stock buyback program to $30 billion to enrich its wealthy shareholders. We need a windfall profits tax.
Bernie Sanders
2 months ago: Thursday Apr 28 - 2:50pm
On this Yom HaShoah, we remember the 6 million Jews who were murdered by the Nazis in the Holocaust. At a time of rising antisemitism, racism, and xenophobia, we must honor them today and every day by standing together against all forms of hate, bigotry, and intolerance.
Bernie Sanders
2 months ago: Thursday Apr 28 - 1:06pm
Mr. Romney supports "bribes" in the form of tax cuts for the wealthy and billions in welfare for corporations, but is shocked by the idea that working Americans might get help paying off student debt. I know he thinks corporations are people, but does he know people are people? https://t.co/FdwbVpJfLs
Bernie Sanders
2 months ago: Wednesday Apr 27 - 8:07pm
The time for talk is over. The time for action is now. Taxpayer dollars should not go to companies like Amazon and multi-billionaires like Jeff Bezos, who repeatedly break the law. https://t.co/RSSipWW1Zf
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Bernie Sanders
2 months ago: Wednesday Apr 27 - 7:22pm
The U.S. Department of Labor has the authority to prevent companies like Amazon that have violated labor laws from receiving federal contracts. Taxpayer dollars should not go to companies and multi-billionaires like Jeff Bezos who repeatedly break the law. Let's get this done.
Bernie Sanders
2 months ago: Wednesday Apr 27 - 2:43pm
Federal Income Taxes Paid in 2021: $0: AT&T $0: AIG $0: Dow $0: Charter Communications $0: Salesforce $0: Duke Energy $0: Kinder Morgan Combined profits: $55.6 billion But we're told inflation is rising because a worker got a 50 cent raise & a $1,400 check. #TaxTheRich
Bernie Sanders
2 months ago: Wednesday Apr 27 - 12:02pm
The federal government bailed out the banks. Trump and the Republicans gave huge tax cuts to the wealthy. Congress is about to hand $10 billion to Jeff Bezos to go the moon. Yes, we can afford to cancel all student debt.
Bernie Sanders
2 months ago: Tuesday Apr 26 - 5:43pm
Since March of 2020 Mr. Bezos became $65 billion richer. He has enough money to own a $500 million, 417-foot mega-yacht. He has enough money to buy a rocket ship to blast William Shatner to outer space. Yes, he can provide decent working conditions. https://t.co/vC4yJNxk74
Bernie Sanders
2 months ago: Tuesday Apr 26 - 5:36pm
Taxpayer dollars should not go to companies like Amazon and multi-billionaires like Jeff Bezos who repeatedly break the law to defeat union organizing efforts. I'm LIVE on the floor of the Senate to say to President Biden it is time for action. https://t.co/vC4yJNxk74
Bernie Sanders
2 months ago: Sunday Apr 24 - 6:29pm
At a time when many workers feel like cogs in a machine, Vermonters should be proud that at places like Switchback Brewing Company our state is helping to lead the country toward alternatives to corporate ownership. https://t.co/5wS6RGFGwf
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Bernie Sanders
2 months ago: Friday Apr 22 - 2:05pm
On Earth Day, let us recommit to coming together and taking on the existential threat of climate change. We must act now to save the planet.
Bernie Sanders
2 months ago: Friday Apr 22 - 10:58am
When we take that next giant leap into space let us do it to benefit all of humanity, not to turn a handful of billionaires into trillionaires. https://t.co/cTVGNJElxr
Bernie Sanders
2 months ago: Thursday Apr 21 - 2:21pm
We spend twice as much as other countries on health care, yet 80 million remain uninsured or underinsured. A rational health care system should provide quality care for all, not huge profits for insurance and drug companies. That's why I will soon reintroduce Medicare for All.
Bernie Sanders
2 months ago: Wednesday Apr 20 - 2:11pm
At a time of growing income and wealth inequality, workers are fighting back and unionizing – at Amazon, Starbucks, universities and hospitals. They are right. We need an economy that works for all, not just billionaires.
Bernie Sanders
2 months ago: Monday Apr 18 - 9:14pm
Corporate greed is Jeff Bezos becoming $152,000 richer a MINUTE, owning a $500 million yacht & a $175 million Beverly Hills estate, while Amazon employees who worked over 10 hours on Easter Sunday might be "lucky enough” to win a $2 snack pack. Yes. Amazon workers need a union. https://t.co/8BH0xmuYqP
Bernie Sanders
2 months ago: Monday Apr 18 - 10:58am
If you paid $1 In federal income taxes, you paid more in taxes than: AT&T in 2021 Tesla in 2021 Amazon in 2017-2018 Nike in 2020 FedEx in 2020 Dish Network in 2020 Elon Musk in 2018 Jeff Bezos in 2007 & 2011 Carl Icahn in 2016-2017 Yes. It’s time to tax the rich.
Bernie Sanders
2 months ago: Friday Apr 15 - 7:42pm
At a time when a handful of huge Wall Street firms control the economic life of the country, they are now moving to control the political life as well. We must overturn Citizens United, that disastrous Supreme Court decision, and move to public funding of elections. https://t.co/gc49MxbiVW
1 day ago: Thursday Jun 30 - 11:33am
President Biden is absolutely right. Senate Democrats must end the filibuster and codify the right to an abortion NOW. If you allow the broken rules of the Senate to stand in the way of guaranteeing basic rights for our people, you don’t really stand for those rights. https://t.co/WMiXeWa34m
Bernie Sanders
1 day ago: Wednesday Jun 29 - 10:50pm
At a time when half of older Americans have no retirement savings and are worried about their ability to retire with dignity and millions of seniors are living in poverty, our job is not to cut Social Security. Our job must be to expand Social Security. https://t.co/zVX9tQtDI6
Bernie Sanders
2 days ago: Wednesday Jun 29 - 11:47am
The American people are sick of airlines ripping them off, canceling flights at the last minute and delaying flights for hours on end. It's time for @SecretaryPete to fine airlines $55,000 per passenger for every flight cancellation they know can’t be fully staffed. https://t.co/NE7H03U9QU
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Bernie Sanders
6 days ago: Saturday Jun 25 - 1:02pm
Big Oil's 1st Quarter Profit in 2022: $35 billion Average Price of Gas today: $4.91 Big Oil's 1st Quarter Profit in 2019: $13.8 billion Average Gas Price: $2.69 Big Oil's 1st Quarter Profit in 2015: $13.1 billion Average Gas Price: $2.41 Yes. We need a windfall profits tax.
Bernie Sanders
1 week ago: Friday Jun 24 - 12:04pm
Overturning Roe v. Wade and denying women the right to control their own bodies is an outrage and in defiance of what the American people want. Democrats must now end the filibuster in the Senate, codify Roe v. Wade, and once again make abortion legal and safe.
Bernie Sanders
1 week ago: Thursday Jun 23 - 7:29pm
It’s time for a windfall profits tax. https://t.co/slDwljhPyS
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Bernie Sanders
1 week ago: Thursday Jun 23 - 3:02pm
In 2020, 45,000 Americans died from gun-related injuries. We’ve recently seen horrific mass shootings in Buffalo and Texas. The Supreme Court’s response: loosen gun safety laws. Six justices are way out of touch with reality.
Bernie Sanders
1 week ago: Monday Jun 20 - 4:43pm
In the French elections, given the choice between progressives who want to increase taxes on the rich, or right-wing extremists who are viciously anti-immigrant, the pro-business "centrist" party of Macron just couldn't make a choice. There's a lesson to be learned here.
Bernie Sanders
1 week ago: Sunday Jun 19 - 2:49pm
Understanding the horrors and lasting legacy of slavery is a critical step to making the changes we need in our world today. Today, on Juneteenth, we must recommit to building a nation based on justice and compassion.
Bernie Sanders
1 week ago: Sunday Jun 19 - 12:48pm
$2.5 billion in federal funding went to Moderna. The company’s CEO then received a $926 million golden parachute. Does that make any sense to you? https://t.co/Dp2ALVRNc6
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Bernie Sanders
1 week ago: Saturday Jun 18 - 9:06am
Last year, 3 of the biggest pharmaceutical companies in America – Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson and AbbVie – increased their profits by 90 percent to $54 billion – while half of the new brand name drugs now cost over $180,000. Obscene.
Bernie Sanders
2 weeks ago: Thursday Jun 16 - 10:21am
The Democratic Party cannot continue to ignore the needs of the working class of our country and expect to retain majority control in the US House and US Senate. It’s time to show which side we’re on. It’s time to start voting. https://t.co/4ZP0MkQuym
Bernie Sanders
2 weeks ago: Wednesday Jun 15 - 4:21pm
LIVE: I'm on the floor of the Senate to respond to Sen. Rand Paul's budget proposal that calls for tax breaks for the wealthy and massive cuts to programs the American people need. https://t.co/sFHn6mpOOA
Bernie Sanders
2 weeks ago: Wednesday Jun 15 - 1:29pm
Today, someone who makes $147,000 a year pays the same amount of Social Security taxes as a millionaire or billionaire. Does that make sense to you? https://t.co/lhy4yGAIEx
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Bernie Sanders
2 weeks ago: Wednesday Jun 15 - 10:33am
President Biden is absolutely right. The big oil companies are making obscene profits gouging working Americans at an unprecedented level. Democrats in Congress should support the president’s fight against their greed and enact a windfall profits tax NOW. https://t.co/gzAvnnhunh
Bernie Sanders
2 weeks ago: Tuesday Jun 14 - 7:29pm
Right now, there are 1,500 paid lobbyists from both parties in Washington working overtime to make sure we don’t represent our constituents who are dying and are sick and tired of paying outrageous prices for prescription drugs. What a disgrace. https://t.co/rnNnPIfNKG
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Bernie Sanders
2 weeks ago: Saturday Jun 11 - 3:00pm
When I was a kid growing up in Brooklyn, I obsessively followed the Brooklyn Dodgers. As mayor of Burlington, I helped bring minor league baseball back to the city. Today's team is the @VTLakeMonsters and I had the honor of throwing out the first pitch on opening day this year. https://t.co/WhXQrdaN2H
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Bernie Sanders
2 weeks ago: Saturday Jun 11 - 1:35pm
Ban the sale and distribution of assault weapons. Prohibit high-capacity magazines. Expand background checks. End the gun show loophole. If we can’t get 60 votes in the Senate, then we must end the filibuster.
Bernie Sanders
2 weeks ago: Saturday Jun 11 - 10:49am
Making Gaza's beaches safe for swimming is a small but important step in addressing Gaza's environmental and humanitarian crisis. We must continue to bring people together for these efforts in Palestine and across the region. https://t.co/zIsozf3ouG
Bernie Sanders
3 weeks ago: Friday Jun 10 - 1:59pm
Greed. Greed. Greed. Since 2008, the median price for new brand name drugs soared from $2,115 to $180,000 while 3 pharmaceutical companies made $54 billion in profits last year. How many more people need to die before Congress has the guts to take on the pharmaceutical industry?
Bernie Sanders
3 weeks ago: Friday Jun 10 - 11:56am
The January 6th hearings remind us that politics today is not a debate over ideas. It's about whether we maintain our democratic form of government against those who propagate a Big Lie, violence and authoritarianism.
Bernie Sanders
3 weeks ago: Thursday Jun 9 - 4:44pm
It is absurd that a billionaire in America today pays the same amount of Social Security taxes as someone making $147,000 a year. It is time to scrap the cap, expand benefits, and fully fund Social Security. https://t.co/VRKzxWjTIv
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Bernie Sanders
3 weeks ago: Thursday Jun 9 - 4:01pm
RT @SenWarren: Social Security is a lifeline for Americans—but many seniors are struggling with rising costs. As Republicans try to phase out Social Security & raise taxes on hardworking Americans, I'm working w/ @SenSanders to expand Social Security by making the wealthy pay their fair share.
Bernie Sanders
3 weeks ago: Thursday Jun 9 - 11:03am
LIVE: At a time when half of older Americans have no retirement savings and millions of senior citizens are living in poverty, our job is to expand Social Security by demanding the wealthy pay their fair share. https://t.co/sEGOhQvkuF
Bernie Sanders
3 weeks ago: Wednesday Jun 8 - 6:59pm
Let me be clear: Every American must be able to retire with dignity. Period. Join me Tomorrow at 11 a.m. ET for a hearing in the Senate Budget Committee to discuss how we must save and expand Social Security – not cut it.
Bernie Sanders
3 weeks ago: Wednesday Jun 8 - 1:35pm
Our nation’s veterans have earned quality health care. I’m LIVE on the floor of the Senate to urge my colleagues to strengthen the VA so no veteran is left behind. https://t.co/IPzMs3i2CJ
Bernie Sanders
3 weeks ago: Tuesday Jun 7 - 12:18pm
The time is long overdue to legalize marijuana nationally, expunge past marijuana convictions and ensure revenue from legal marijuana is reinvested in the communities most impacted by the failed war on drugs.
Bernie Sanders
3 weeks ago: Monday Jun 6 - 5:11pm
RT @RepCori: Proud to see @POTUS invoke the Defense Production Act to invest in renewable energy. Now Congress must pass my Energy Security and Independence Act with @SenSanders & @RepJasonCrow to fund this effort, lower energy prices, create jobs, and fight the climate crisis. https://t.co/wRDcp5JhHp
Bernie Sanders
3 weeks ago: Sunday Jun 5 - 11:28am
In the richest country in the history of the world, no senior should live in poverty and every American should be able to retire in dignity after a lifetime of hard work. Yes, it’s time expand Social Security.
Bernie Sanders
3 weeks ago: Saturday Jun 4 - 11:43am
I must confess that I love diners. I have not eaten at every diner in Vermont, but I've been to most. They're unpretentious, the food is good, the prices are right and the staff are friendly. Join us on a visit to the Blue Benn in Bennington. https://t.co/8LRxeZYgdF
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Bernie Sanders
4 weeks ago: Friday Jun 3 - 12:21pm
1 in 7 older Americans rely on Social Security for more than 90% of their income. Maybe, just maybe, instead of cutting Social Security, we should expand it.
Bernie Sanders
4 weeks ago: Thursday Jun 2 - 12:47pm
The time for endless talk is over. We must vote on Build Back Better THIS MONTH. Let those who are opposed explain why. The vast majority in our caucus deserve a chance to show they can stand up to powerful special interests and represent working families. We must vote NOW.
Bernie Sanders
1 month ago: Wednesday Jun 1 - 2:56pm
Sen. Manchin is right. Let’s cut drug prices in half by strengthening the provision in the House-passed Build Back Better legislation to allow Medicare to negotiate drug prices like the VA has done for years, and pass the whole package with 50 votes next week. It's time to vote. https://t.co/WZKyNdGfBW
Bernie Sanders
1 month ago: Wednesday Jun 1 - 2:20pm
Yes, it is more important to protect the babies of this country than the huge CEO compensation packages and stock buybacks of an infant formula company that lied to the FDA. That’s not a radical idea. https://t.co/3GYzQi1cfL
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Bernie Sanders
1 month ago: Tuesday May 31 - 2:14pm
Cancel it. Every penny. https://t.co/VkRUiAj5pw
Bernie Sanders
1 month ago: Monday May 30 - 8:04am
Today, Memorial Day, we honor the brave men and women who gave their lives to defend our country. Their sacrifices will never be forgotten.
Bernie Sanders
1 month ago: Friday May 27 - 6:07pm
Congratulations to Starbucks Workers United for winning the 100th union election at Starbucks coffee shops all over America. I say to Howard Schultz: Stop the union busting. Obey the law. Negotiate a fair contract with your workers now – no more delays. Enough is enough.
Bernie Sanders
1 month ago: Wednesday May 25 - 11:26am
Enough is enough. We must abolish the filibuster and pass gun safety legislation NOW. No one in America needs an AR-15. How many more children, mothers and fathers need to be murdered in cold blood before the Senate has the guts to ban assault weapons and take on the NRA?
Bernie Sanders
1 month ago: Wednesday May 25 - 9:23am
It is tragic but unsurprising that Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny will be sent to prison for 9 years. Putin’s authoritarian regime cannot tolerate dissent, especially from someone who exposes the enormous wealth Putin and his cronies have stolen from the Russian people.
Bernie Sanders
1 month ago: Tuesday May 24 - 6:46pm
The horrific rampage in TX once again makes clear that there are some very sick people in this country with guns in their hands who should not have them. Congress may not be able to end this problem, but we must at least pass commonsense gun reforms to finally protect the public.
Bernie Sanders
1 month ago: Monday May 23 - 10:43pm
When I think about the gathering of billionaires at Davos at a time of obscene income and wealth inequality I recall what Dr. King said: “God never intended for one group of people to live in superfluous inordinate wealth, while others live in abject deadening poverty.”
Bernie Sanders
1 month ago: Monday May 23 - 4:53pm
No government – not the federal government, not the state government and not the city government – should be handing out corporate welfare to union busters and labor law violators.
Bernie Sanders
1 month ago: Monday May 23 - 1:43pm
The oligarchs in Davos party, the poor suffer. While 260 million people throughout the world will likely be pushed into extreme poverty this year – trying to survive on less than $2 a day – over 2,000 billionaires across the globe became $3.78 trillion richer during the pandemic.
Bernie Sanders
1 month ago: Monday May 23 - 1:07pm
Per capita spending on health care: 🇬🇧: $5,268 🇨🇦: $5,370 🇫🇷: $5,564 🇺🇸: $12,530 How does it happen that we spend so much money for health care, but get so little in return?
Bernie Sanders
1 month ago: Thursday May 19 - 1:02pm
This is what a rigged and corrupt system looks like. Effective Tax Rate: 0.1%: Warren Buffett worth $111 billion 1.1%: Jeff Bezos worth $131 billion 1.8% Mike Bloomberg worth $82 billion 2.1%: Elon Musk worth $210 billion 13.5%: Registered Nurse Yes. It's time to #TaxTheRich
Bernie Sanders
1 month ago: Tuesday May 17 - 10:16am
The loudest voices in the Republican Party demanding that women be forced to give birth against their will are exactly the same people who oppose virtually every effort here in Congress designed to improve life for children and their mothers. https://t.co/kK2ehYmIoo
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Bernie Sanders
1 month ago: Saturday May 14 - 10:55pm
This act of domestic terrorism by a racist, anti-Semitic white supremacist using an AR-15 should be a call to action. Let us finally pass common sense gun safety reforms. We cannot grow numb to this violence, and we must show our nation can come together to address this hatred. https://t.co/YKXIWlqaPk
Bernie Sanders
1 month ago: Saturday May 14 - 2:08pm
No, Mr. Bezos. Disinformation is Amazon spreading anti-union propaganda & forcing workers to attend illegal captive audience meetings. Disinformation is Amazon blaming a 17% price increase on "inflation" while making a record $35 billion in profits & avoiding $5 billion in taxes. https://t.co/voJEB4ZTFR
Bernie Sanders
1 month ago: Friday May 13 - 2:05pm
The attack by Israeli forces against mourners at the funeral of Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh is an outrage. The United States must condemn this, and demand an independent investigation into her killing.
Bernie Sanders
1 month ago: Friday May 13 - 1:14pm
Greed. Greed. Greed. While Americans are struggling at the pump, in the first three months of this year, 21 oil and gas companies made over $41 billion in profits, more than double their profits from last year. The problem is not inflation. The problem is corporate greed.
Bernie Sanders
1 month ago: Friday May 13 - 9:21am
The United States has the most dysfunctional, inefficient, bureaucratic and expensive health care system in the world. It’s time for Medicare for All. https://t.co/rGwE13J45i
Bernie Sanders
1 month ago: Thursday May 12 - 3:32pm
It is not acceptable that 68,000 Americans die each year because they cannot afford the health care they desperately need. It’s time to end this international embarrassment. It’s time to guarantee health care in the United States to all. It’s time for Medicare for All. https://t.co/BDdEnoN3cy
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Bernie Sanders
1 month ago: Thursday May 12 - 11:03am
LIVE: No more insurance premiums. No more deductibles. No more co-payments. Health care is right, not a privilege. It’s time for Medicare for All. https://t.co/usC3ArZYIa
Bernie Sanders
1 month ago: Thursday May 12 - 9:30am
Today at 11am ET, we will hold the first ever hearing in a full committee of the U.S. Senate on Medicare for All. Health care is a right, not a privilege. https://t.co/NGGDheDApP
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Bernie Sanders
1 month ago: Wednesday May 11 - 5:09pm
If you can’t stand up for a woman’s right to choose, for voting rights, for an economy that works for all, why are you caucusing with the Senate Democrats? We need a Democratic Majority where all members believe in economic, racial, social and environmental justice.
Bernie Sanders
1 month ago: Wednesday May 11 - 1:13pm
It is no great secret that women throughout the history of our country have had to fight for their basic human rights against all forms of patriarchy, so today let us be absolutely clear: When it comes to women’s rights, we cannot go backwards. We must go forward. https://t.co/vElVw1lSHJ
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Bernie Sanders
1 month ago: Tuesday May 10 - 8:18pm
I'm LIVE on the floor of the U.S. Senate to demand we end the filibuster and protect the constitutional right to have an abortion. https://t.co/xowPEHsfcy
Bernie Sanders
1 month ago: Tuesday May 10 - 4:56pm
I'll be on the floor of U.S. Senate TONIGHT at 8pm ET to talk about why we must end the filibuster and protect the constitutional right to have an abortion.
Bernie Sanders
1 month ago: Tuesday May 10 - 12:21pm
RT @AbdulElSayed: Grateful to @SenSanders for calling a hearing of the Senate Budget Committee on Medicare for All & for the invitation to participate as a witness to share insights about how M4A would protect health, save lives, & save money. Make@sure to tune in: https://t.co/BAAUHf8cTx
Bernie Sanders
1 month ago: Tuesday May 10 - 12:21pm
RT @awgaffney: This Thursday, @SenSanders is holding a hearing on Medicare for All in the Budget Committee. I’m excited to testify alongside @AbdulElSayed & @NNUBonnie. The need for fundamental healthcare reform has never been so urgent. https://t.co/xr3V44RcLg
Bernie Sanders
1 month ago: Tuesday May 10 - 10:47am
Estimates show that nearly 27 million Americans and their families lost their health care coverage when they lost their jobs due to COVID-19. Let me be clear: health care is a human right, not a job benefit. Yes. It’s time for Medicare for All.
Bernie Sanders
1 month ago: Monday May 9 - 5:08pm
We spend twice as much per capita on health care as any other nation but with worse health outcomes for our people. Does that make sense to anyone? It’s time for Medicare for All.
Bernie Sanders
1 month ago: Monday May 9 - 12:25pm
If Republicans can end the filibuster to install right wing judges nominated by presidents who lost the popular vote in order to overturn Roe v. Wade, Democrats can and must end the filibuster to keep abortion legal and safe.
Bernie Sanders
1 month ago: Friday May 6 - 9:27pm
This is what Oligarchy and corporate greed are all about. Two large and profitable corporations, owned by billionaires, spend millions to illegally deny their workers the right to organize. No corporation that breaks the law should get a federal contract. https://t.co/uOky6yO3kz
Bernie Sanders
1 month ago: Friday May 6 - 4:07pm
Congratulations to the resident doctors at UVM, UMass and Stanford who have voted, overwhelmingly, to unionize. These doctors believe its unfair to their patients and themselves when they are forced to work up to 80 hours a week at very inadequate pay. They're right.
Bernie Sanders
1 month ago: Friday May 6 - 2:57pm
Taxpayer dollars should not go to multibillion dollar companies that violate labor laws. Period. https://t.co/Ne52zVxXAn
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Bernie Sanders
1 month ago: Thursday May 5 - 9:02pm
It may be news to @LindseyGrahamSC, but Amazon has a 150% percent turnover rate. Workers come into the warehouses, they are worked as hard as humanly possible, and they leave, often crushed. Is this really a business model that should be rewarded with federal contracts? https://t.co/l4zNc9YwYP
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Bernie Sanders
1 month ago: Thursday May 5 - 5:44pm
Congratulations to President Biden for having the courage to do what no president in modern history has done. He is standing with union organizers who are helping to grow the trade union movement. This is an important step forward for working families. Let's go forward together. https://t.co/tOmG93lcwI
Bernie Sanders
1 month ago: Thursday May 5 - 11:15am
No government – not the federal government, not the state government and not the city government - should be handing out corporate welfare to union busters and labor law violators. https://t.co/qEZx3hRqrR
Bernie Sanders
1 month ago: Thursday May 5 - 11:05am
LIVE: Taxpayer dollars should not go to companies like Amazon and multi-billionaires like Jeff Bezos who repeatedly break the law. https://t.co/qEZx3hRqrR
Bernie Sanders
1 month ago: Thursday May 5 - 10:58am
RT @Teamsters: Teamsters General President Sean M. O'Brien is looking forward to this important hearing with @SenSanders & @Shut_downAmazon set to begin at 11am this morning. Watch live: https://t.co/rsaDauaFNN #1u #Amazon https://t.co/oS0lp6kIIg
Bernie Sanders
1 month ago: Thursday May 5 - 9:27am
The Senate Budget Committee will be joined TODAY by @Teamsters President Sean O'Brien, @Shut_downAmazon and others for a hearing on why taxpayer dollars should not go to companies like Amazon and billionaires like Jeff Bezos who repeatedly break the law. Join us LIVE at 11am ET.
Bernie Sanders
1 month ago: Wednesday May 4 - 11:45pm
Clearly, Jeff Bezos, the second wealthiest person on the planet, desperately needs $10 billion from the American taxpayer to go to the moon. After all, he is only worth $150 billion. https://t.co/USSEfTJwfH
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Bernie Sanders
1 month ago: Wednesday May 4 - 8:19pm
We have strange priorities in the Senate. We can’t extend the child tax credit. We can’t deal with the crisis in child care. We can’t take on climate change. But somehow we can provide a massive amount of corporate welfare to a handful of corporations. Totally absurd. https://t.co/AZtNd8HXDA
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Bernie Sanders
1 month ago: Wednesday May 4 - 2:30pm
If Mr. Bezos wants to go to the moon, wants to go to Mars, wants to go to Saturn, that’s his right. But he does not have the right to ask the taxpayers of this country for $10 billion to help him make his trip to outer space.
Bernie Sanders
1 month ago: Wednesday May 4 - 1:06pm
In my view, it makes zero sense for Congress to hand a $52 billion check to the microchip industry, no strings attached. This is an industry that said ‘Hey, let’s throw hundreds of thousands of American workers out on the street to make more money in low-wage countries.’ Absurd.
Bernie Sanders
1 month ago: Wednesday May 4 - 11:09am
RT @Teamsters: #Teamsters agree 💯 Don't miss this must-watch @SenateBudget Committee hearing tomorrow w/ #Teamsters General Pres. Sean M. O'Brien @SenSanders @GoodJobsFirst & @amazonlabor on ending Fed. contracts to companies engaged in illegal anti-union activities: https://t.co/pQIuLCfxwv https://t.co/2iTQuSRhyC
Bernie Sanders
1 month ago: Monday May 2 - 9:38pm
Congress must pass legislation that codifies Roe v. Wade as the law of the land in this country NOW. And if there aren’t 60 votes in the Senate to do it, and there are not, we must end the filibuster to pass it with 50 votes.
Bernie Sanders
1 month ago: Monday May 2 - 7:24pm
Eid Mubarak to all of our Muslim friends around the world.
Bernie Sanders
2 months ago: Monday May 2 - 11:28am
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? I don’t think so. The Senate will hold a vote this week to stop it. https://t.co/cz0yqkiukP
Bernie Sanders
2 months ago: Sunday May 1 - 9:40pm
In Denmark, as a result of strong unions, McDonald's workers make $22 an hour, get 6 weeks paid vacation & 1 year of paid leave. In the US, 58% of McDonald's workers make less than $12 an hour & no benefits while its CEO makes $20 million. Every worker needs a union. #MayDay2022
Bernie Sanders
2 months ago: Sunday May 1 - 3:30pm
While Vermont continues to lead the nation in syrup production, many studies are telling us that the climate crisis is threatening the industry. Now, more than ever, it’s important that we protect not only our planet, but also long-held and beloved practices, like sugaring. https://t.co/SsHssk4rYl
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Bernie Sanders
2 months ago: Sunday May 1 - 2:43pm
I want wish each and every one of you a very happy May Day. When working people in our country and around the world come together, there is nothing that can stop us in the struggle for justice.
Bernie Sanders
2 months ago: Friday Apr 29 - 12:58pm
In the last 3 months, as gas prices soared, Exxon Mobil doubled its profit to $5.5 billion. Instead of increasing supply or expanding production, what did Exxon do? Triple its stock buyback program to $30 billion to enrich its wealthy shareholders. We need a windfall profits tax.
Bernie Sanders
2 months ago: Thursday Apr 28 - 2:50pm
On this Yom HaShoah, we remember the 6 million Jews who were murdered by the Nazis in the Holocaust. At a time of rising antisemitism, racism, and xenophobia, we must honor them today and every day by standing together against all forms of hate, bigotry, and intolerance.
Bernie Sanders
2 months ago: Thursday Apr 28 - 1:06pm
Mr. Romney supports "bribes" in the form of tax cuts for the wealthy and billions in welfare for corporations, but is shocked by the idea that working Americans might get help paying off student debt. I know he thinks corporations are people, but does he know people are people? https://t.co/FdwbVpJfLs
Bernie Sanders
2 months ago: Wednesday Apr 27 - 8:07pm
The time for talk is over. The time for action is now. Taxpayer dollars should not go to companies like Amazon and multi-billionaires like Jeff Bezos, who repeatedly break the law. https://t.co/RSSipWW1Zf
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Bernie Sanders
2 months ago: Wednesday Apr 27 - 7:22pm
The U.S. Department of Labor has the authority to prevent companies like Amazon that have violated labor laws from receiving federal contracts. Taxpayer dollars should not go to companies and multi-billionaires like Jeff Bezos who repeatedly break the law. Let's get this done.
Bernie Sanders
2 months ago: Wednesday Apr 27 - 2:43pm
Federal Income Taxes Paid in 2021: $0: AT&T $0: AIG $0: Dow $0: Charter Communications $0: Salesforce $0: Duke Energy $0: Kinder Morgan Combined profits: $55.6 billion But we're told inflation is rising because a worker got a 50 cent raise & a $1,400 check. #TaxTheRich
Bernie Sanders
2 months ago: Wednesday Apr 27 - 12:02pm
The federal government bailed out the banks. Trump and the Republicans gave huge tax cuts to the wealthy. Congress is about to hand $10 billion to Jeff Bezos to go the moon. Yes, we can afford to cancel all student debt.
Bernie Sanders
2 months ago: Tuesday Apr 26 - 5:43pm
Since March of 2020 Mr. Bezos became $65 billion richer. He has enough money to own a $500 million, 417-foot mega-yacht. He has enough money to buy a rocket ship to blast William Shatner to outer space. Yes, he can provide decent working conditions. https://t.co/vC4yJNxk74
Bernie Sanders
2 months ago: Tuesday Apr 26 - 5:36pm
Taxpayer dollars should not go to companies like Amazon and multi-billionaires like Jeff Bezos who repeatedly break the law to defeat union organizing efforts. I'm LIVE on the floor of the Senate to say to President Biden it is time for action. https://t.co/vC4yJNxk74
Bernie Sanders
2 months ago: Sunday Apr 24 - 6:29pm
At a time when many workers feel like cogs in a machine, Vermonters should be proud that at places like Switchback Brewing Company our state is helping to lead the country toward alternatives to corporate ownership. https://t.co/5wS6RGFGwf
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Bernie Sanders
2 months ago: Friday Apr 22 - 2:05pm
On Earth Day, let us recommit to coming together and taking on the existential threat of climate change. We must act now to save the planet.
Bernie Sanders
2 months ago: Friday Apr 22 - 10:58am
When we take that next giant leap into space let us do it to benefit all of humanity, not to turn a handful of billionaires into trillionaires. https://t.co/cTVGNJElxr
Bernie Sanders
2 months ago: Thursday Apr 21 - 2:21pm
We spend twice as much as other countries on health care, yet 80 million remain uninsured or underinsured. A rational health care system should provide quality care for all, not huge profits for insurance and drug companies. That's why I will soon reintroduce Medicare for All.
Bernie Sanders
2 months ago: Wednesday Apr 20 - 2:11pm
At a time of growing income and wealth inequality, workers are fighting back and unionizing – at Amazon, Starbucks, universities and hospitals. They are right. We need an economy that works for all, not just billionaires.
Bernie Sanders
2 months ago: Monday Apr 18 - 9:14pm
Corporate greed is Jeff Bezos becoming $152,000 richer a MINUTE, owning a $500 million yacht & a $175 million Beverly Hills estate, while Amazon employees who worked over 10 hours on Easter Sunday might be "lucky enough” to win a $2 snack pack. Yes. Amazon workers need a union. https://t.co/8BH0xmuYqP
Bernie Sanders
2 months ago: Monday Apr 18 - 10:58am
If you paid $1 In federal income taxes, you paid more in taxes than: AT&T in 2021 Tesla in 2021 Amazon in 2017-2018 Nike in 2020 FedEx in 2020 Dish Network in 2020 Elon Musk in 2018 Jeff Bezos in 2007 & 2011 Carl Icahn in 2016-2017 Yes. It’s time to tax the rich.
Bernie Sanders
2 months ago: Friday Apr 15 - 7:42pm
At a time when a handful of huge Wall Street firms control the economic life of the country, they are now moving to control the political life as well. We must overturn Citizens United, that disastrous Supreme Court decision, and move to public funding of elections. https://t.co/gc49MxbiVW