Press Releases

BURLINGTON, Vt., Aug. 13 — Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Ranking Member of the Senate Subcommittee on Social Security, Pensions, and Family Policy, today announced he would introduce the Keep Billionaires Out of Social Security Act.  The legislation — unveiled ahead of the 90th anniversary of President Franklin D. Roosevelt signing the Social Security Act into law — reverses the disastrous

BURLINGTON, Vt., Aug. 11 – Ahead of the 90th anniversary of President Franklin D. Roosevelt signing the Social Security Act into law, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) will join Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), Rep. John Larson (D-Conn.), former Social Security Commissioner Martin O’Malley, policy experts and Social Security beneficiaries for a press call on Wednesday calling on Congress to protect benefits

BURLINGTON, Vt., Aug. 5 — Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) today released the following statement after the Trump administration moved to cancel $7 billion in funding for the Solar for All program — legislation that Sanders wrote to provide loans or grants to working class families to help cover the cost of installing solar rooftops or participating in community-based solar projects:

BURLINGTON, Vt., Aug. 4 — Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, led a letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Education Secretary Linda McMahon, Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer and Attorney General Pam Bondi calling on them to reverse departmental guidance intended to throw people off of

WASHINGTON, July 30 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) today released the following statement after forcing a vote on the floor of the United States Senate to block the sale of arms to Israel: By a vote of 27-17, the members of the Senate Democratic caucus voted to stop sending arms shipments to a Netanyahu government which has waged a horrific,