Press Releases

BURLINGTON, Vt., Jan. 8 – U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) welcomed comments on Sunday from Reince Priebus, the incoming White House chief of staff, that President-elect Donald Trump would not “meddle with Medicare or Social Security.” Sanders said, however, that Trump must go further.   Trump must make it clear to Republicans in Congress that he would veto any legislation

WASHINGTON, Jan. 4 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) slammed a Republican budget plan introduced Wednesday that he said would throw millions off health insurance, drive up already-skyrocketing prices seniors pay for prescription drugs and pave the way for cuts to Medicare and Medicaid. In a Senate floor speech, Sanders also called on President-elect Donald Trump to pledge to veto any

LONG ISLAND CITY, N.Y., Jan. 2 – U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who made tuition-free public higher education a key proposal in his presidential campaign, joined Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo Tuesday in unveiling a plan for New York public colleges and universities that Sanders called “a model for the rest of the nation.” Sanders and Cuomo appeared together before some

WASHINGTON, Dec. 30 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), a former chairman of the Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, issued the following statement Friday in response to reports that President-elect Donald Trump is considering privatizing the Department of Veterans Affairs: “Privatizing the VA would be an insult to the more than 22 million veterans who risked their lives to defend our

WASHINGTON, Dec. 16 — Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and Senator Bernie Sanders, Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Primary Health and Aging, Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, sent a letter to Heritage Pharmaceuticals requesting information about the company’s assertions to Congress in 2014 while the

BETHESDA, Md., Dec. 15 – U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) had an outpatient procedure today to remove a small basal-cell carcinoma from his cheek. The procedure, which lasted about an hour, was completed successfully. Sanders returned to work after the procedure and, later, took a plane home to Vermont.