Press Releases

WASHINGTON, March 16 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), the ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee, issued the following statement Thursday after President Donald Trump released his budget: “President Trump’s budget is morally obscene and bad economic policy. It will cause devastating pain to the very people Trump promised to help during the campaign. At a time of massive income

WASHINGTON, March 13 – Network newscasts have all but ignored skyrocketing prescription drug prices at a time when Americans say high costs are their top health care concern and three-quarters of Americans want to rein in rising prescription prices.    There were no mentions of prescription drug prices on the CBS Evening News or ABC’s World News Tonight since last

BURLINGTON, Vt., March 11 – U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) asked the Army not to surrender legal rights to a promising vaccine for the Zika virus after the government invested more than $1 billion in taxpayer funds to research and develop the possible treatment. Sanders is a leader in combating soaring drug prices in the United States where consumers already

WASHINGTON, March 9 – Citing new evidence that many profitable corporations evade paying any U.S. income taxes, Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) Thursday introduced a bill to eliminate tax breaks that encourage corporations to shift jobs and profits offshore. Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) introduced a companion bill in the House. In addition to closing loopholes, the Corporate Tax

WASHINGTON, March 6 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) released the following statement Monday after President Donald Trump signed a new executive order blocking immigration from six majority-Muslim countries and suspending admittance of all refugees: “Let’s call it what it is. This ban is a racist and anti-Islamic attempt to divide us up. A president who respected our traditions of religious

WASHINGTON, March 3 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) will join civil rights and labor leaders Saturday outside a Nissan Motor Co. plant in Canton, Mississippi, to demand that the automaker respect the rights of workers to form a union. “I am proud to join the fight to give Nissan’s workers the justice, dignity and the right to join a union