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

Every once in awhile, I DO agree with Trump. He's right: when the Pentagon cannot complete an independent audit, we should cut military spending by 8% a year over the next 5 years.

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Peter Welch
@peterwelch· Democratic · VT· Feb 19, 2025

I would like to speak about the importance of FEMA, the importance of fixing it but not destroying it. Mother Nature, this week, provided yet another reminder of the devastating impacts of natural disasters. In Kentucky, we had…

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Peter Welch
@peterwelch· Democratic · VT· Feb 19, 2025

really delighted to be here with my colleagues: the Senator from Wisconsin, the Senator from Rhode Island, and the Senator from New Hampshire. There are a couple things that just need to be faced directly. One is that the President of the…

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

I have reviewed your record, and in many respects, especially given the nature of the nominees that Mr. Trump has brought forth, it is very good.

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

Will you be a rubber stamp for the anti-worker agenda of Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and other multibillionaires who are blatantly anti-union, they don’t make any bones about it, or will you stand with working families all over the country?

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

I don't mean to be rude, but I am gathering that you no longer support the PRO Act.

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

I don't mean to be rude. I am gathering that you no longer support the PRO Act.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Feb 17, 2025

I'm going to speak to Senator Bernie Sanders in the next hour about this very effort, and whether they do feel that they have proper oversight of how this is being conducted.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Feb 17, 2025

It will only be defeated by millions of Americans in Iowa, in Vermont, in Nebraska, in every state in this country, who come together in a strong grassroots movement and say no to oligarchy, no to authoritarianism, no to kleptocracy, no to…

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Feb 17, 2025

The role of billionaires in politics, it's not just Musk, it's others. It's not just Republican billionaires, it is Democratic billionaires. It is the corruption of the two-party system.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Feb 17, 2025

Together, we can stop Republicans from cutting Medicaid and giving tax breaks to billionaires.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Feb 17, 2025

Today in America we are rapidly moving toward an oligarchic form of society where a handful of multibillionaires not only have extraordinary wealth, but unprecedented economic, media, and political power.

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Eli Crane
@elicrane· Republican · VT· Feb 16, 2025

Our case for impeaching Judge Engelmayer is basically that he’s an activist judge trying to stop the Trump administration from, you know, executing their, you know, Article II powers to make sure that the laws are faithfully executed.

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

European friends: Do not accept lectures on democracy and freedom of speech from an administration that denies the 2020 election results.

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

Right-wing extremism is not just an American phenomenon. It's worldwide.

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

A single payer system does not mean having a lower quality system.

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