Press Releases

WASHINGTON, April 29 – Ahead of Vermont resident Mohsen Mahdawi’s court hearing tomorrow, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) today announced he will join Rep. Becca Balint (D-Vt.) and House and Senate colleagues for a press conference at the State Department to call for his immediate release. Mahdawi was abruptly arrested earlier this month by plainclothes ICE agents without being charged with

BURLINGTON, Vt., April 25 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) today released the following statement on the Trump administration’s arrest of a Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, circuit judge: This morning, President Trump directed the FBI to arrest trial court judge Hannah Dugan in Milwaukee. She is being charged with obstructing law enforcement, a federal crime. Let’s be clear. Trump‘s arrest of Judge

WASHINGTON, April 25 — Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), alongside Sens. Patty Murray (D-Wash.), Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) and 39 of their Democratic colleagues, wrote to Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to call out the Trump administration’s direct attacks on Head Start, remind

WASHINGTON, April 24 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), alongside Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) and Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-Mich.), announced today that they will hold a press conference on Tuesday with nurses, health care providers, and workers from around the nation to introduce the Medicare for All Act.

BURLINGTON, Vt., April 23 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) today released the following statement on the detention of eight farm workers in Vermont by the Trump administration: Trump wants to deport migrant agricultural workers. This will only disrupt families, raise food prices and put more pressure on struggling family farms. It is exactly the wrong approach. The time is long

BURLINGTON, Vt., April 16 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) will hold his third annual Youth Chess Day for students grades 1-12 on Saturday, April 19 at Vermont State University in Randolph. Over the first two years of this event, more than 250 young Vermonters from across the state have come out to learn the game and compete. “Chess is a