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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Apr 2, 2025

All of this is unconscionable. We are talking about a mass atrocity.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Apr 2, 2025

It is American bombs and American military equipment being used to destroy Gaza, kill 50,000 people, injure over 110,000 people.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Apr 2, 2025

There is a name and a term for forcibly expelling people from where they live. It is called ethnic cleansing. It is illegal. It is a war crime.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Apr 2, 2025

None of these systems are defensive, none of them are necessary to protect Israel from incoming drone or rocket attacks.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Apr 2, 2025

As bad as the last year and a half has been, at least Israel let some — some, not enough, but some aid through. But what is happening right now is unthinkable.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Apr 2, 2025

That is a clear violation of the Geneva Conventions, the Foreign Assistance Act, and basic human decency. It is a war crime. You don’t starve children.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Apr 2, 2025

All of these systems have been linked to dozens of illegal airstrikes, including on designated humanitarian sites, resulting in thousands of civilian casualties.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Apr 2, 2025

We spend far more per capita for health care than other nations. Yet, according to Gallup, 91 million Americans could not afford to pay for medical care if they needed it today.

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Chuck Schumer
@chuckschumer· Democratic · NY· Apr 2, 2025

You’re going to see a whole lot of amendments going after Donald Trump and the Republicans on a whole bunch of issues where they are favoring billionaires and against families.

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Chuck Schumer
@chuckschumer· Democratic · NY· Apr 2, 2025

Donald Trump is using tariffs in the dumbest way imaginable.

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Chuck Schumer
@chuckschumer· Democratic · NY· Apr 2, 2025

This is a huge tax on American families, all to help billionaires get a tax cut.

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Chuck Schumer
@chuckschumer· Democratic · NY· Apr 1, 2025

These tariffs are a disaster for the average American.

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Chuck Schumer
@chuckschumer· Democratic · NY· Apr 1, 2025

Senate Republicans are so hell-bent on cutting taxes for billionaires, they’re now willing to detonate the rules of the Senate, violate norms and traditions and break their word to get it done.

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Chuck Schumer
@chuckschumer· Democratic · NY· Apr 1, 2025

Just 70 days into Trump 2.0, Americans are tired of the chaos. They are tired of Elon Musk attacking Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare.

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Xavier Becerra
@xavierbecerra· Democratic · CA· Apr 1, 2025

Whether defending workers against wage theft or looking out for families in need of a hospital for their kids, standing up for DREAMers or fighting for clean air and water, I've always been driven by the California values instilled in me…

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Xavier Becerra
@xavierbecerra· Democratic · CA· Apr 1, 2025

California is at a crossroads. From housing to healthcare, childcare to college, working families are facing an affordability crisis. The California Dream is slipping away.

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