NEWS: Sanders, 39 Senators Fight Trump’s Cuts to the Job Corps Program
WASHINGTON, June 6 – After the Trump administration attempted to shutter the nation’s largest jobs training program for low-income and at-risk young people, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and 39 Senate colleagues, today sent a letter to Department of Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer urging her to reverse the illegal
NEW STUDY: Trump’s ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ Will Cause Over 51,000 Additional Americans to Die Each Year
WASHINGTON, June 3 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, issued the following statement in response to new calculations from Yale University and the University of Pennsylvania finding that more than 51,000 additional Americans will die each year if Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill” is signed into law. “Let’s be clear.
MEDIA ADVISORY: Sanders to Call on Republicans to Support Trump, Lower Prescription Drug Prices
WASHINGTON, May 21 – After President Trump issued a vague executive order claiming to slash drug costs by linking them to international prices, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), today announced he would ask for unanimous consent on the Senate floor to pass legislation that would actually do just
NEWS: Sanders, Jayapal, Colleagues Introduce Bill to Make Public Colleges and Universities Tuition Free
WASHINGTON, May 21 – As President Trump and congressional Republicans are working overtime to make college unaffordable and unattainable for millions of working-class families in order to provide tax breaks to billionaires, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.), and nine Senate colleagues, today introduced legislation
MEDIA ADVISORY: Sanders to Sound the Alarm on Vermont’s Health Care Crisis
WASHINGTON, May 16 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) today announced he will hold a press conference Monday with health care, business and community leaders to discuss the crisis in Vermont’s health care system and call for immediate action. As independent health care providers, nonprofit insurers, federally qualified health centers and rural hospitals in Vermont struggle to stay afloat, Congressional Republicans
