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

Stephen Colbert, an extraordinary talent and the most popular late-night host, slams the deal. Days later, he's fired. Do I think this is a coincidence? NO.

redstate.com
Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Jul 18, 2025

it's not enough. He's still illegally withholding $5.5 billion more from schools. Congress passed it. The president signed it. Trump must release it.

commondreams.org
Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Jul 18, 2025

Today we forced Trump to release $1.3 billion for more than 10,000 summer and after-school programs helping 1.4 million students.

commondreams.org
Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Jul 17, 2025

If we can guarantee a defined benefit pension plan for members of Congress, we can and we must provide that same level of retirement security to every worker in America.

truthout.org
Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Jul 17, 2025

If we are serious about addressing the retirement crisis in America, corporations must be required to offer all of their workers a traditional pension plan that guarantees a monthly income in retirement.

truthout.org
Peter Welch
@peterwelch· Democratic · VT· Jul 16, 2025

I rise to pay tribute to Reginald Adams Berry, a native of Washington, DC, who died unexpectedly on June 28. Mr. Berry was, by all accounts, an exceptionally kind, thoughtful, and intellectually curious person who was also the beloved…

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Peter Welch
@peterwelch· Democratic · VT· Jul 15, 2025

a June 25 article in the New York Times captured, in a single headline, the disaster that the misguided policies of this White House are inflicting on the world's most vulnerable people. It also illustrates the immense damage this White…

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

Mamdani won. The establishment is in panic. Billionaires are raising money against him; Trump is ranting; Islamophobes are on the loose. They know what we know: Candidates who stand boldly with the working class can win not only in NYC…

newsweek.com
Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Jul 15, 2025

Like all authoritarians, Trump doesn't like criticism or objective reporting. He just wants flattery.

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

Do the American people really want massive cuts to health care, nutrition and education so that billionaires can get huge tax breaks? I don’t think so. No member of Congress who voted for this disastrous legislation should be re-elected.

truthout.org
Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Jul 11, 2025

The Trump administration’s barbaric practice of expelling immigrants to dangerous ‘third countries’ is an abuse of our justice system.

theintercept.com
Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Jul 11, 2025

The deportation of eight men to South Sudan – a country plagued by famine and brutal civil war – is abhorrent.

theintercept.com
Peter Welch
@peterwelch· Democratic · VT· Jul 10, 2025

exactly 2 years ago today, Vermont was struck with devastating floods. Those floods occurred not only a year ago today, but 2 years ago today. We had back-to-back floods in 2023 and 2024, doing about a billion dollars' worth of damage. And…

govinfo.gov
Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Jul 9, 2025

We cannot continue to allow big banks to make huge profits ripping off the American people.

newsweek.com
Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Jul 8, 2025

At this moment, hundreds of thousands of people are starving after Israel prevented any aid from entering Gaza for nearly three months.

commondreams.org
Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Jul 8, 2025

This is the man Trump and Congress are welcoming this week: a war criminal who will be remembered as one of modern history's monsters.

commondreams.org