Press Releases

WASHINGTON, April 12 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) issued the following statement Thursday after President Donald Trump said Thursday morning that he was directing his advisers to look into rejoining the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a deal he pulled out of immediately after becoming president: “In a series of broken promises President Trump made to the working people of this country, rejoining the job-killing

WASHINGTON, April 11 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) issued the following statement Wednesday after President Donald Trump tweeted that he plans to strike the Assad regime in Syria: “President Trump has no legal authority for broadening the war in Syria. It is Congress, not the president, who determines whether our country goes to war and Congress must not abdicate that

WASHINGTON, April 9 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) issued the following statement Monday ahead of the confirmation hearing for Mike Pompeo, nominee for secretary of state: “We need a secretary of state who will represent the best principles of the United States to the rest of the world. Mike Pompeo is not that person. He is a supporter of the Global

WASHINGTON, April 9 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), the ranking member of the Budget Committee, issued the following statement Monday after the Congressional Budget Office estimated that the cumulative deficit over the next decade will be $1.6 trillion larger than previously projected largely as a result of the tax cuts for the wealthy and large corporations passed by Republicans last year: “Over and

BURLINGTON, Vt., March 28 – U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), former chairman and current member of the Veterans Affairs Committee, issued the following statement after President Donald Trump tweeted that he will replace his Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin with Ronny Jackson, who currently serves as the president’s physician: “Every major veterans’ organization in this country vigorously opposes the privatization of the VA. I stand

More than 130 Vermont high school students traveled on Tuesday to the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate in Boston. This was the second trip organized by U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) to the bipartisan Kennedy Institute to help Vermont students learn about democracy, civic discourse and the legislative process.  Students from North Country Union High School,