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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Apr 2, 2025

It is American bombs and American military equipment being used to destroy Gaza, kill 50,000 people, injure over 110,000 people.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Apr 2, 2025

We spend far more per capita for health care than other nations. Yet, according to Gallup, 91 million Americans could not afford to pay for medical care if they needed it today.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Apr 2, 2025

All of this is unconscionable. We are talking about a mass atrocity.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Apr 2, 2025

That is a clear violation of the Geneva Conventions, the Foreign Assistance Act, and basic human decency. It is a war crime. You don’t starve children.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Apr 2, 2025

Today, it is 31 days and counting with absolutely no humanitarian aid getting into Gaza. Nothing. No food, no water, no medicine, no fuel, for over a month.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Apr 2, 2025

As bad as the last year and a half has been, at least Israel let some — some, not enough, but some aid through. But what is happening right now is unthinkable.

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Amy Coney Barrett
@amyconeybarrett· Independent · DC· Apr 1, 2025

We're here because of Planned Parenthood not being a qualified provider in South Carolina, but would this open the floodgates of people bringing lawsuits because they can't see the provider of their choice?

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Angus King
@angusking· Independent · ME· Mar 31, 2025

I want to ask you questions about veterans in this country, but before I do, you talk a lot about courage.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Mar 31, 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…

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Mar 31, 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.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Mar 31, 2025

Social Security is the most successful government program in our nation's history.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Mar 31, 2025

There is a name for such a policy — ethnic cleansing — and it’s a war crime.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Mar 30, 2025

We MUST overturn Citizens United and move to public funding of elections.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Mar 27, 2025

There is a name for such a policy — ethnic cleansing — and it’s a war crime.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Mar 27, 2025

Blocking of humanitarian aid is a morally abhorrent and a clear violation of both the Geneva Convention and the Foreign Assistance Act.

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