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By: Ben Blanchet; HuffPost The Vermont senator ripped the billionaire after he spotted the “big one” among “waste” in the federal budget. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) dug into Elon Musk on Monday over the billionaire’s attempts to undermine benefit programs like Social Security with his talks of wasteful spending in the federal government. “Why do you make it look like it’s

By: Brett Wilkins; Common Dreams “My constituents in Vermont and constituents all over this country want to know what the hell is going on with the federal government right now,” the democratic socialist senator said. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.)—the ranking member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions—on Thursday urged the panel to launch an investigation into the Department of Government

By: WCAX News Team; WCAX WASHINGTON (WCAX) – Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders is calling on the Trump administration to roll back cuts to the Department of Veterans Affairs. More than 1,000 employees with the Department of Veterans Affairs were laid off last week as part of the president’s efforts to shrink the federal workforce. In a letter to VA Secretary Doug

By: Marita Vlachou; HuffPost The Vermont senator warned the U.S. is moving “into an authoritarian form of society” under the Trump administration. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Tuesday said Elon Musk “is clearly running the show” at the nonofficial Department of Government Efficiency, warning that the U.S. is moving “into an authoritarian form of society” under the Trump administration. White House press secretary

By: WCAX News Team; WCAX WASHINGTON (WCAX) – Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders is calling on the Trump administration to roll back cuts to the Department of Veterans Affairs. More than 1,000 employees with the Department of Veterans Affairs were laid off last week as part of the president’s efforts to shrink the federal workforce. In a letter to VA Secretary Doug

By: WCAX News Team; WCAX WASHINGTON (WCAX) – Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders joined teachers on Wednesday outside the Capitol to call attention to President Trump’s promises to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education. The department, according to some reports, has already started to terminate its civil service workforce. It comes as Trump’s nominee to lead the department, Linda McMahon, is set