Press Releases

WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 — Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Sen. Peter Welch (D-Vt.) and Rep. Becca Balint (D-Vt.) today released the following statement: “We are horrified to learn of the detention of Vermont pastor and nursing assistant Steven Tendo by ICE outside of his workplace today — just days ahead of a regular check-in with immigration authorities. Pastor Tendo fled persecution

WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), today released a new report documenting how the Trump administration has broken its promises to American patients by gutting medical research at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) while failing to lower prescription drug prices and engaging in political

WASHINGTON, Feb. 2 – According to a new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report, the Trump administration’s efforts to illegally dismantle the Education Department wasted up to $38 million by paying investigators at its Office for Civil Rights (OCR) not to work while it dismissed roughly 90% of discrimination complaints from students nationwide without review. Commissioned by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.),

WASHINGTON, Jan. 30 – Sen. Sanders (I-Vt.) today issued the following statement after voting against the federal funding bill. I could not, in good conscience, vote for the federal funding deal that the Senate passed today. The overwhelming majority of the American people are justifiably outraged by ICE murdering United States citizens in cold blood, terrorizing communities throughout the country

WASHINGTON, Jan. 30 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) today secured a Senate vote on his amendment to the government funding package to repeal the $75 billion funding increase for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) — originally included in Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” (OBBB). The amendment would use those savings to reverse Medicaid cuts in the OBBB, preventing 700,000 Americans

WASHINGTON, Jan. 28 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), today released a new report finding that the Trump administration’s school privatization agenda threatens our nation’s public schools and harms working-class students, students with disabilities and students from diverse religious backgrounds. President Trump’s so-called “Big Beautiful Bill” created the