Press Releases

WASHINGTON, Jan. 28 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), today released a new report finding that the Trump administration’s school privatization agenda threatens our nation’s public schools and harms working-class students, students with disabilities and students from diverse religious backgrounds. President Trump’s so-called “Big Beautiful Bill” created the

BURLINGTON, Vt., Jan. 26 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) today released the following statement: ICE is out of control, ignoring the law and our Constitution. Congress must vote NO on any additional funding for DHS.    Further, here is SOME of what else we must do: Get ICE, CBP and the rest of Trump’s domestic army out of Minnesota and Maine NOW No

WASHINGTON, Jan. 20 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I–Vt.), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), released the following statement on the minibus agreement announced Monday by congressional leadership: Over the past several years, one of my top legislative priorities as Chairman, and now Ranking Member, of the Senate HELP Committee has been to address

WASHINGTON, Jan. 13 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) today released the following statement regarding ongoing protests in Iran: Iran is in turmoil. Millions of people are rising up against their autocratic government. Not surprisingly, the regime is responding brutally by killing thousands of protesters, according to some estimates. The Iranian people have the right to determine their own future, and the

WASHINGTON, Jan. 13 — After the Trump administration illegally attempted to put the president’s name on federal property including the U.S. Institute of Peace and the Kennedy Center, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), alongside U.S. Sens. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) and Angela Alsobrooks (D-Md.), today introduced a bill to prohibit the naming of federal buildings after sitting presidents. Joining Sanders, Van

WASHINGTON, Jan. 12 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) today released the following statement regarding the Trump administration’s investigations into Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell and Trump’s political opponents: Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell is a conservative Republican. I voted against his nomination based on policy disagreements. In a democracy, debate and disagreement are normal. But Donald Trump does not “disagree”