Press Releases

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

BURLINGTON, Vt., Jan. 26 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) today released the following statement: ICE is out of control, ignoring the law and our Constitution. Congress must vote NO on any additional funding for DHS.    Further, here is SOME of what else we must do: Get ICE, CBP and the rest of Trump’s domestic army out of Minnesota and Maine NOW No

WASHINGTON, Jan. 20 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I–Vt.), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), released the following statement on the minibus agreement announced Monday by congressional leadership: Over the past several years, one of my top legislative priorities as Chairman, and now Ranking Member, of the Senate HELP Committee has been to address