Press Releases

March 20, 2017– “We have expressed our serious concerns to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) about these arrests of several farmworkers and farmworker advocates.  We are also reaching out to ICE about the potential impact in Vermont of President Trump’s executive order calling for increased immigration enforcement.  Instead of focusing on removing those people who pose a threat to public

BRATTLEBORO, VT., March 16 – Budget analysts for U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), the ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee, identified some of the ways the budget blueprint released Thursday by President Donald Trump would hurt Vermont. Trump’s plan would: Eliminate the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program which provides heating assistance to some 21,000 Vermont families. Make college more

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