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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· May 11, 2025

Not only is this farcically corrupt, it is blatantly unconstitutional. Congress must not allow this over-the-top kleptocracy to proceed.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· May 11, 2025

If Trump is serious about making real change rather than just issuing a press release, he will support legislation I will soon be introducing to make sure we pay no more for prescription drugs than people in other major countries.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· May 11, 2025

It is an outrage that the American people pay, by far, the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· May 11, 2025

[A]s Trump well knows, his executive order will be thrown out by the courts.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· May 10, 2025

Today on Mother's Day, let's remember every mother deserves a livable wage, affordable childcare, paid family leave, and the ability to retire with dignity.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· May 10, 2025

Bernie Sanders has long called for canceling all student debt.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· May 10, 2025

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but NO, Donald Trump cannot accept a $400 million flying palace from the royal family of Qatar.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· May 8, 2025

defending exclusionary zoning at the local level in the name of socialism is hokum.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· May 8, 2025

I want to say a few words about an issue that people all over the world are thinking about, are appalled by but, for some strange reason, gets very little discussion here in the Nation's Capital or in the halls of Congress, and that is the…

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· May 8, 2025

if the Senator had heard my remarks, I talked about the need to release the hostages and I talked about who started the war, which is the terrorist organization called Hamas, led by war criminals. There is no debate about that. But what…

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Becca Balint
@beccabalint· Democratic · VT· May 8, 2025

It has been 5 days since President Trump, when asked if he had to uphold the Constitution, told a reporter: ``I don't know.'' Madam Speaker, it has been 5 days of silence from my Republican colleagues. I keep waiting to see if a single…

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· May 7, 2025

Given that reality, one might think that there would be a vigorous discussion right here in the Senate: Do we really want to spend billions of taxpayer dollars starving children in Gaza?

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· May 7, 2025

It is our government, the United States government, that is absolutely complicit in creating and sustaining this humanitarian disaster.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· May 7, 2025

There is no ambiguity here: Netanyahu's extremist government talks openly about using humanitarian aid as a weapon.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· May 7, 2025

Starving children to death as a weapon of war is a clear violation of the Geneva Convention, the Foreign Assistance Act, and basic human decency.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· May 7, 2025

More than that, he has repeatedly said that the United States will actually take over Gaza after the war.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· May 7, 2025

The time is long overdue for us to end our support for Netanyahu's destruction of the Palestinian people.

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