Op-Eds

By: Bernie Sanders; USA Today We live in an unprecedented moment as our country faces enormous crises, including COVID-19, climate change, attacks on democracy, income and wealth inequality, and the multidecade decline of the American middle class. As chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, I proposed a $6 trillion reconciliation bill that would begin to address these long-neglected problems. A

By: Bernie Sanders; The Guardian  The latest International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report is clear and foreboding. If the United States, China and the rest of the world do not act extremely aggressively to cut carbon emissions, the planet will face enormous and irreversible damage. The world that we will be leaving our children and future generations will be

By: Bernie Sanders; Fox News For too many decades, Congress has ignored the needs of the working class For too many years the people on top have been doing phenomenally well, while working families continue to struggle. The time is long overdue for Congress to address the long-neglected needs of ordinary Americans, and not just the 1% and wealthy campaign contributors.  And that

By: Bernie Sanders; Wall Street Journal The American Rescue Plan boosted the economy during the pandemic. But it didn’t go far enough. The good news is that the American Rescue Plan Act, enacted in March, has been effective. At a time of unprecedented health and economic crisis caused by the pandemic, it did exactly what a democratic government in a

By: Bernie Sanders; The Guardian If our budget passes, it would be one of the most important pieces of legislation since the New Deal. But we must fight for it   Now is the time. At a time when the gap between the very rich and everyone else is growing wider, when two people now own more wealth than the

By: Sen. Bernie Sanders, Rep. Pramila Jayapal; Data for Progress The deadly coronavirus pandemic laid bare many inequalities in American society — and perhaps no inequality more devastating than disparities in healthcare. As workers had their hours slashed and millions were laid off entirely, we saw that the chasm between who has health coverage and who doesn’t remains one of