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By: Maya Yang; The Guardian Senator says the future of the US ‘rests with a small number of Republicans in the House and Senate who know better’ Bernie Sanders warned of the US’s slide into authoritarianism following Donald Trump’s decision to deploy the national guard to Los Angeles over the city’s protests against federal immigration raids. Speaking to CNN on Sunday,

By: Jake Johnson; Common Dreams “Instead of increasing the cost of college in order to give more tax breaks to billionaires,” said Sen. Bernie Sanders, “we are going to make public colleges and universities tuition-free.” As U.S. President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans move to gut federal student aid programs to help fund tax cuts for the rich, Sen. Bernie

By: Olivia Grieger; VTDigger Congress’s proposed changes to Medicaid policies and a state insurer’s potential rate hikes would further stress a system in crisis, the Senator said in a Monday press conference. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., joined a group of state legislators, health care officials and advocates in Burlington Monday morning to raise the alarm on what they called Vermont’s

By: Filip Timotija; The Hill Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) warned during a recent interview that the proposed Republican cuts to Medicaid will end up causing “thousands and thousands” of low-income and working-class people’s deaths. Citing estimates from the Congressional Budget Office, Sanders said more than “13 million Americans are going to lose their health insurance. And then on top of that,

By: Jacqueline Howard; CNN A Senate committee report by minority staff, and obtained by CNN, slams the Trump administration for terminating some funding for research, firing thousands of federal workers and removing certain scientific data from government websites. The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee’s minority staff report, scheduled to be released Tuesday and authored by Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont,

By: Maya Yang; The Guardian Eight US senators ask Shari Redstone not to settle to end president’s ‘bogus’ $20bn lawsuit over 2024 Harris interview The senator Bernie Sanders and his Democratic colleagues are urging Paramount Global not to settle Donald Trump’s $20bn lawsuit against 60 Minutes, saying such a decision would “capitulate to this dangerous move to authoritarianism”. In a letter