Press Releases

MINNEAPOLIS, July 13 – U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) released the following statement regarding Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein’s announcement Friday of new charges against 12 Russian intelligence officers: “The indictments announced today by the Justice Department confirm once again that Russia interfered in our elections to benefit Donald Trump. The fact that these indictments name 12 members of Russia’s military intelligence service

WASHINGTON, July 9 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) issued the following statement Monday after President Donald Trump announced he is nominating Brett Kavanaugh to be an associate justice on the U.S. Supreme Court: “Let us be clear: President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh will be a rubber-stamp for an extreme, right-wing agenda pushed by corporations and billionaires. The coming

BURLINGTON, Vt., July 6 – Flanked by members of the Vermont Federation of Nurses and Health Professionals, U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) demanded Friday afternoon that the UVM Medical Center administration address the nursing crisis at the hospital. “As anyone who has ever been in a hospital bed knows, nurses are the backbone of any hospital,” Sanders said. “Patients know

BURLINGTON, Vt., July 5 – U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) issued the following statement Thursday after Scott Pruitt, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, resigned: “Scott Pruitt was the worst EPA administrator in the history of the agency. Not only has he acted, time and time again, in an unethical manner, but he has led the agency in exactly the

BURLINGTON, Vt., July 2 – Vermont’s congressional delegation today announced that Vermont will receive $3 million in AmeriCorps funding from the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS). “AmeriCorps members have an enormous impact on the lives of Vermonters through the excellent programs they support. Here in Vermont, that includes serving at-risk youth, promoting affordable housing, protecting the environment and

WASHINGTON, June 28 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) will host a livestreamed town hall Monday, July 16 to address the enormous disparity between the wealth of corporate executives and the wages and treatment of the companies’ workers. Sanders will be joined by workers from major U.S. corporations Amazon, Disney, McDonald’s, Walmart and American Airlines, and he has invited the CEO