Press Releases

BURLINGTON – March 17 – U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) applauded the Federal Housing Finance Agency’s announcement that the National Housing Trust Fund will receive a record $711 million this year to build, preserve and rehabilitate affordable rental housing for extremely low-income families. This is more than double the funding allocated for the Trust Fund in 2020, which Sanders helped

WASHINGTON, March 17 – Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Ed Markey (D-Mass.), and Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) along with Reps. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.), and Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) on Wednesday introduced the Tax Excessive CEO Pay Act to take on corporate greed by raising taxes on companies that pay their top executives at least 50 times more than the pay of a median

BURLINGTON, March 16 – U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) held a virtual town meeting Monday evening to discuss how students have experienced the social, emotional, and mental health challenges caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Nearly 500 Vermont students joined Sanders for the town meeting, which was held via video. The event was also streamed live on Sanders’ social media platforms,

WASHINGTON, March 12 – Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Tom Carper (D-Del.), Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) and Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) on Friday sent a letter to Secretary Antony Blinken asking the Biden administration to urge the Israeli government to do more to help the Palestinians in Israeli-occupied territories receive adequate supplies of the COVID vaccine. “The urgency of the

Worker from Amazon Warehouse in Bessemer to Testify, Bezos Invited to Appear WASHINGTON, March 12 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) today announced that on Wednesday, March 17, the Senate Budget Committee will hold a hearing on income and wealth inequality in America. Millions of Americans are unemployed, underemployed or have given up looking for work, while hunger in the country

BURLINGTON, March 9 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) will hold a statewide virtual town hall meeting with Vermont students this Monday, March 15 at 7:30pm. The virtual event, Coping During COVID: How Students are Handling the Challenges of the COVID-19 Pandemic, will focus on how students have experienced the social, emotional, and mental health challenges caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.