Bernie Sanders

In Vermont, we dress warm. We know something about the cold. And we`re not so concerned about good fashion. We want to keep warm. And that`s what I did today.

There's a lot that we can do through a Biden's executive actions. You know, Trump showed us the power of executive orders.

We have to act and act now. And the first order of business by the way, is to pass an emergency COVID-19 bill which among many other things says to working class Americans, we know you're in pain and we are going to get you a $2,000 check…

Trump has been a disaster, the worst President in the history of the United States, and that's terrible.

Just yesterday, he incited people to invade the U.S. Capitol.

No, it really is very, very sad for our democracy, for our country. And it really speaks to the fact that we have a President who not only is a pathological liar, somebody who lost an election by seven million votes, lost the Electoral…

And all that I am saying is that, according to a very reputable tax center organization--people who do this for a living-- less than 1 percent of the benefits of the entire program go to the wealthiest people in this country. So when you…

Thank you very much, Mr. President. I would ask my friend from South Dakota: Do you disagree with the Tax Policy Center, which says that the top 5 percent of Americans--the wealthiest people in our country--would receive less than 1…

Well, I think my friend from Illinois missed nothing in the translation. He is exactly right. But I also--

Let me just make it clear for the majority leader that 10 out of the poorest 25 counties in the United States of America are located in Kentucky.

What Trump is doing and those people who support his approach are trying to delegitimize elections in this country. And that is undermining American democracy.

The fact that Donald Trump has won tens of millions of working-class votes despite being a pathological liar and a fraud, speaks to the failure of the Democratic Party and standing up for those very families.

We have got to stay here and do the right thing, and that is pass legislation that was passed already in the House and that's providing $2,000 for every working-class person in this country.

It is unconscionable to me to see members of Congress fleeing home to their families while all over this country, you got families who are struggling to put food on the table.

We have a very unlikely ally in President Trump. Nobody here has disagreed with Trump more times than I have. And yet here is what the leader of the Republican Party says. He says $2,000 ASAP. So, even on this issue, amazingly enough, the…

My plan is pretty simple is to demand that Mitch McConnell allow the United States Senate to vote up or down on that legislation that was passed by the House whether or not we could get to 12 or 13 Republicans that we need to pass the…

The leaders of our country President Trump, President-Elect Biden, Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, the Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi are all in agreement. We have got to raise the direct payment to $2,000.

The House did the right thing by, as you indicated, over a two-thirds bipartisan vote. They voted to increase the $600 direct payment to $2,000 for every working class adult in this country. And that is the right thing to do.

It's not only the huge tax breaks we gave to the wealthy. It's not only the fact we have a tax code that allows large profitable corporations like Amazon to pay virtually nothing in federal taxes. It's the hundred of billions of dollars in…

The leaders of our country, President Trump, President-elect Biden, Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, the Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi are all in agreement, we have got to raise the direct payment to $2,000. So, that is where we are…

We have got to raise that direct payment to $2,000.

I am now threatening to hold up Senate work on the veto override of the National Defense Authorization Act if Majority Leader McConnell does not put a straight up or down vote of those $2,000 payments on the floor.

What the president is doing right now is unbelievably cruel.

I will insist that any agreement in terms of a COVID-19 relief package must include not only strong unemployment benefits but a $1,200 direct payment for the working families of this country, similarly structured to what was included in…

The day after Biden gets inaugurated, we're going to roll up our sleeves and figure out how we strengthen American democracy because it is very much under attack right now.