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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Apr 9, 2025

What these trade agreements, in essence, said to corporate America: ‘Hey, no problem. You can throw American workers out on the street.’

cnn.com
Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Apr 9, 2025

We don’t have to hate China. We don’t have to hate other people. Let’s figure out a way to work together.

cnn.com
Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Apr 8, 2025

America must stop large corporations from moving jobs to 'low-wage countries.'

vox.com
Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Apr 8, 2025

The oligarchs have unlimited amounts of money. They own the media, they have tremendous power over the political process.

slate.com
Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Apr 8, 2025

I think some of them are Republicans, some of them may be conservative Democrats.

slate.com
Angus King
@angusking· Independent · ME· Apr 8, 2025

I think it’s a problem that we are losing the middle.

cnn.com
Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Apr 7, 2025

We need a rational and well-thought-out trade policy, not arbitrary actions from the White House.

democracynow.org
Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Apr 4, 2025

Now is the time to address the crises facing working Americans. I ask for a ``yes'' vote. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator from Louisiana.

govinfo.gov
Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Apr 4, 2025

This amendment is simple and straightforward. Millions of Americans today are working for starvation wages. What this amendment does is raise the Federal minimum wage from an embarrassingly low $7.25 an hour to a living wage of $17 an hour…

govinfo.gov
Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Apr 3, 2025

Instead of slashing Social Security’s staff, closing down Social Security field offices, we should be making it easier, not harder, for seniors and people with disabilities to receive the Social Security benefits that they have earned and…

truthout.org
Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Apr 3, 2025

President Trump and Elon Musk have suggested that ‘millions and millions’ of dead people receive Social Security checks. That is an outrageous lie designed to undermine Americans’ faith in Social Security.

truthout.org
Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Apr 3, 2025

I think we should rephrase it, call it a pseudo-democracy.

cbsnews.com
Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Apr 2, 2025

None of these systems are defensive, none of them are necessary to protect Israel from incoming drone or rocket attacks.

commondreams.org
Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Apr 2, 2025

All of these systems have been linked to dozens of illegal airstrikes, including on designated humanitarian sites, resulting in thousands of civilian casualties.

commondreams.org
Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Apr 2, 2025

There is a name and a term for forcibly expelling people from where they live. It is called ethnic cleansing. It is illegal. It is a war crime.

commondreams.org