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

The easiest way to save money is to eliminate the 'Billions and Billions' in corporate welfare Elon Musk has received.

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

In the wealthiest country in the world, we should be guaranteeing health care to all as a human right, not taking health care 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 7, 2025

Billionaires must not be allowed to buy Democratic primary elections. Other states should follow suit.

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

Congratulations to the Arizona Democrats for getting the ball rolling on this enormously important issue.

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Becca Balint
@beccabalint· Democratic · VT· Jun 6, 2025

Defense Secretary Hegseth should be one of the busiest people on the planet, defending our country and leading nearly 3 million courageous Americans in our Armed Forces. It is an awesome responsibility. This week, Pete Hegseth spent his…

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Jun 5, 2025

Would we really want to silence the principal challenger to the Trump agenda in the currently trendy cause of fighting gerontocracy?

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John Rose
@johnrose· Republican · VT· Jun 3, 2025

I rise to recognize the inspiring career of Eddy Haynes who recently retired from Putnam County, Tennessee, Emergency Medical Services. For 37 years, he faithfully served his community as an advanced emergency medical technician. Over the…

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Becca Balint
@beccabalint· Democratic · VT· Jun 3, 2025

it is hard not to feel like this administration is trying to kill us. The Republican budget slashes billions of dollars from Medicaid and food assistance programs. Millions will lose their health insurance and will be hungrier and sicker…

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Jun 3, 2025

In the wealthiest country in the world, we should be guaranteeing health care to all as a human right, not taking health care 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 3, 2025

In other words, when you throw 13.7 million Americans off the health care they have … when you increase the cost of prescription drugs for low-income seniors, and when you make nursing homes throughout America less safe, not only will some…

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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

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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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

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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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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