Press Releases

WASHINGTON, June 25 — Today, ahead of the Senate’s consideration of a proposed $740.5 billion military budget authorization, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) took to the Senate floor to call for a 10% cut in annual Pentagon spending to invest in education, health care and poverty reduction in America’s most marginalized communities. Sanders’ amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act, cosponsored

WASHINGTON, June 17 – Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) Wednesday welcomed the Senate passage of the Great American Outdoors Act (GAOA) to fully and permanently fund the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) and address long overdue maintenance backlogs on our public lands and waters. The bill now heads to the U.S. House of Representatives for

WASHINGTON, June 17— Senator Bernie Sanders (I-V.t.) returned to the floor of the Senate to call for decisive and drastic action to address the crises of health, economic well-being, and police brutality that face the American people. The Republican Senate leadership is “doing nothing,” Sanders said, while “in every state in this country our constituents are hurting and they are

MONDAY, June 15, 2020 – Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), and Representative Peter Welch (D-Vt.) Monday announced $4.1 million in renewal grants for three Head Start programs today — these grants represent the initial funds of a five year federal grant. The delegation also announced an additional $1.2 million in emergency federal funding from the federal stimulus

WASHINGTON, June 3 – Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) outlined a sweeping set of policy reforms to be adopted in Senate Democrats’ legislative response to police violence, in order to “protect people and communities that have suffered this violence for far too long,” he wrote in a letter addressed to Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.). Sanders listed the following goals “to

WASHINGTON, June 1 – Senate Budget Committee Ranking Member Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) released the following statement on the Congressional Budget Office’s estimate today that U.S. GDP will lose nearly $16 trillion over the next 10 years due to the COVID-19 pandemic: “Last week we learned that over 40 million Americans lost their jobs as a result