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

In the wealthiest country in the world, we should be guaranteeing healthcare to all as a human right, not taking healthcare away from millions of seniors and working families to pay for tax breaks for billionaires.

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

Let's be clear. The Republican reconciliation bill, which makes massive cuts to Medicaid in order to pay for huge tax breaks for billionaires, is not just bad public policy. It is not just immoral. It is a death sentence for struggling…

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

In other words, when you throw 13.7 million Americans off the healthcare they have as the CBO has estimated, when you increase the cost of prescription drugs for low-income seniors, and when you make nursing homes throughout America less…

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

As the ranking member of the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, I will be doing everything that I can to see that this disastrous bill is defeated.

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Patrick Leahy
@patrickleahy· Democratic · VT· Jun 2, 2025

People in the Trump administration who know nothing and care less about these programs are arbitrarily jeopardizing relations with a strategic partner in one of the most challenging regions of the world.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· May 30, 2025

the Democratic Party hasn’t run a 'fair primary' since 2008.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· May 26, 2025

As Trump's Big Beautiful Bill moves to the Senate, we must make it clear: There is nothing 'beautiful' about giving huge tax breaks to billionaires while cutting healthcare, nutrition, and education for working families. It is grossly…

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John Rose
@johnrose· Republican · VT· May 20, 2025

Raising the SALT deduction is a bailout for Democrat Governors—paid for by red states with low taxes.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· May 20, 2025

Trump cannot accept a $400 million flying palace from the royal family of Qatar. Not only is this farcically corrupt, it is blatantly unconstitutional.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· May 19, 2025

Trump's war on science is an attack against anyone who has ever loved someone with cancer.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· May 18, 2025

I say to Shari Redstone: Enough is enough. Do not capitulate to Trump's attack on a free press.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· May 18, 2025

Settling the Trump lawsuit would only embolden him to shake down, extort, and silence CBS and other media outlets.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· May 18, 2025

Stand up for freedom of the press and our democracy. Do not capitulate to this dangerous move to authoritarianism.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· May 15, 2025

We’re going to be looking at $715 billion in cuts to Medicaid and to the Affordable Care Act.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· May 15, 2025

If you are making $16,000 a year, you know what? You can’t afford that 35 bucks.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· May 13, 2025

It should come as no great surprise that a Democratic Party which has abandoned working-class people would find that the working class has abandoned them.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· May 13, 2025

If Trump's 'big, beautiful' reconciliation bill goes through, 13.7 million people will lose their health insurance and even more will become underinsured.

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Peter Welch
@peterwelch· Democratic · VT· May 13, 2025

it's hard, in many ways, to see how we could do worse.

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