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By Sarah Mearhoff; VT Digger The $95 billion package included $60 billion for Ukraine, $14 billion for Israel and $9 billion in humanitarian aid to Gaza, Ukraine and other war-torn regions. In the wee hours of Tuesday morning, Vermont’s two U.S. senators voted against a $95 billion spending package slated to dispense billions of dollars in aid to foreign allies,

By John Nichols; The Nation Bernie Sanders and two Senate colleagues defined a new standard for foreign aid packages: No more complicity with Israel’s assault on Gaza. Shortly before dawn on Tuesday, the US Senate approved a $95 billion “emergency” international military spending bill, which included $14 billion in new military assistance for the Israeli government as it continues its massive assault

By Sharon Zhang; Truthout “Transforming our economy away from fossil fuels isn’t radical. What’s radical is waiting another second to do it.” Five years on from the introduction of the Green New Deal, progressive lawmakers say that it’s needed now more than ever, with new, dangerous climate records being set each year and the grip of the fossil fuel industry

By Sylvan Lane; The Hill Drug company CEOs were in the hot seat Thursday, as Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) sought to harness the anger over high drug prices into action.   During a showy Senate Health Committee hearing, Sanders pressed the CEOs of Merck, Johnson & Johnson and Bristol Myers Squibb about why their medicines cost so much more in the U.S. compared

By Sharon Zhang; Truthout “Hundreds of thousands of Palestinian children are literally starving to death” due to Israel, Sanders said Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) was the only senator in the Democratic caucus to vote against advancing a bill on Thursday that would send $14.1 billion to Israel in order to advance its genocidal military and starvation campaign in Gaza. The

By Grace Seger; The New Republic The senator spoke to TNR about how he’ll grill the CEOs of three drug manufacturers about their high prices. Since taking the helm of the committee that oversees the nation’s health care system last year, Senator Bernie Sanders has used his perch to take aim at pharmaceutical executives over the cost of prescription drugs.