Press Releases

BURLINGTON, Vt., June 8 – In a speech to the Vermont Employee Ownership Conference Friday afternoon at the University of Vermont, U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) stressed that in a rapidly transitioning economy we must help workers around the country form employee-owned businesses:  “Instead of giving huge tax breaks to corporations who shut down in the United States and send jobs

WASHINGTON, June 7 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) outlined his plan to strengthen the United States Postal Service in a letter Thursday to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, the chairman of the president’s task force on the Postal Service. “Unfortunately, for decades, the Postal Service has been under attack by those who want to profit off of the Postal Service’s failure.

LOS ANGELES, June 1 – U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) issued the following statement after President Donald Trump imposed steep tariffs on Mexico, the European Union and Canada: “We need a trade policy that is fair to American workers, not just large multi-national corporations. We need to stop the hemorrhaging of American jobs as large corporations shut down in the United States

WASHINGTON, May 24 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) issued the following statement Thursday after President Donald Trump canceled a planned summit next month with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un: “North Korea is an isolated authoritarian regime which has nuclear weapons and a sophisticated missile delivery system. With the apparent cancellation or postponement of the summit, the Trump administration should

WASHINGTON, May 22 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) released a video Tuesday illustrating the extraordinary wealth of Amazon and its CEO, Jeff Bezos, contrasted with the fact that many Amazon workers must rely on public assistance programs due to low wages and face exhausting working conditions. Later on Tuesday, Amazon News responded to the video on Twitter, saying: “We’ve created

                     NORTHFIELD, Vt., May 19 – U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) held a Veterans Town Hall and Resource Fair on Saturday at Norwich University. Roughly 150 Vermonters attended the event which highlighted national, statewide and local resources for Vermont veterans and their families. “I wanted to hold today’s veterans town meeting because now, more than ever, veterans deserve to know