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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

By: Sudiksha Kochi; USA Today WASHINGTON – Sens. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Josh Hawley, R-Mo., introduced a bill on Tuesday that would cap credit card interest rates at 10% − an effort by two lawmakers who rarely see eye to eye. Credit card interest rates refer to the fee a card issuer charges if a consumer doesn’t pay off their credit

By: Stephen Neukam; Axios Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) has launched an investigation into President Trump’s purge of numerous top federal labor officials, Axios has learned. Why it matters: The probe, which Sanders opened this week, is one of the first signs of Democrats flexing oversight muscle against the new administration. Sanders requested from leaders at the National Labor Relations Board and

By: Marco Margaritoff; Huff Post The independent senator said there’s a “small number of very wealthy people controlling what we see, hear and read” that “have kind of caved in to Trump.” Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) wants Americans to “stay focused” on the most important issues of our time and has warned about a burgeoning oligarchyafter the three richest men on

By: Jake Johnson; Common Dreams “The U.S. must not send more bombs to Netanyahu’s extremist government,” said U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders. U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders vowed late Monday to do everything in his power to block the Biden administration’s newly proposed $8 billion arms sale to the far-right Israeli government, which has used American weaponry to commit atrocities across the Gaza

By: Alexander Bolton; The Hill Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who supports expanding Social Security and Medicare and raising taxes on the wealthy, will get a seat on the Senate’s powerful Finance Committee, which has jurisdiction over those big issues. Sanders supports increasing Social Security benefits for existing recipients by $2,400 a year and increasing cost-of-living adjustments to keep up with rising