Press Releases

WASHINGTON, Sept. 29 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee, issued the following statement Friday in response to Senate Republicans’ proposed fiscal 2018 budget resolution: “After failing to throw 32 million Americans off health insurance, the Republicans are continuing their attack against the working families of our country with one of the most destructive budgets

WASHINGTON, Sept. 27 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) issued the following statement after President Donald Trump and Republican congressional leaders released their plan for tax reform Wednesday morning: “At a time of massive wealth and income inequality, President Trump’s tax plan is morally repugnant and bad economic policy. The last thing we should be doing right now is providing hundreds

WASHINGTON, Sept. 26 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) issued the following statement Tuesday after Senate Republicans announced there would not be a vote on repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act before the Sept. 30 budget reconciliation deadline: “Today, the American people won a major victory. We have stopped another disastrous Republican proposal which would have thrown millions of Americans

WASHINGTON, Sept. 20 – Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt), Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) urged President Donald Trump to stop rewarding companies that ship jobs overseas and to take action to end offshoring. In a letter, the senators called on the president to issue an executive order terminating government contracts for companies that

BURLINGTON, Vt., Sept. 19 – Vermont’s congressional delegation announced Tuesday that the Vermont Agency of Transportation (VTrans) will receive a $480,000 federal grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation to purchase two electric buses that will be used by Green Mountain Transit in Burlington. In June, the Vermont delegation wrote to Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao in support of the grant.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 18 ­– Two amendments by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) were included in the Fiscal Year 2018 National Defense Authorization Act that passed the Senate Monday. One of Sanders’ amendments provides statutory authorization for Beyond the Yellow Ribbon programs, which are state grants provided by the Department of Defense for programs which help members of the Armed Forces and