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Senator Bernie Sanders

@sanders.senate.gov

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Sen. Sanders of Vermont, Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions, is the longest-serving independent in congressional history.

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@sanders.senate.govMay 5, 2026, 2:19 PM

Big Oil is making a $30 million windfall profit every HOUR by using the Iran War as an excuse to rip off commuters at the gas pump. This year, Exxon will be spending $20 billion of its profits on stock buybacks. We must end the Iran War and pass a windfall profits tax — NOW!

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@sanders.senate.govMay 4, 2026, 9:37 PM

In 1933, Justice Louis Brandeis said: “We can have democracy in this country or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of the few, but we cannot have both.” What he said was true 93 years ago. It’s even more accurate today. Let us choose democracy over oligarchy.

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@sanders.senate.govApr 30, 2026, 9:24 PM

The world’s leading scientists are warning that AI could “end civilization as we know it.” 97% of Americans believe AI safety should be subject to rules. When will our government wake up?! We need global cooperation — before it’s too late.

BERNIE
SANDERS
for VERMONT
Are people like Nobel Prize AN Dr. Jeffrey Hinton
exaggerating when they say there is 10 to 20% chance that
Al wipes out humanity?
No, they're not exaggerating it. They're actually sugarcoating it.
think it's likely to be lot higher than 20% risk that we
basically end civilization as we know it if you steam ahead
with completely unregulated Al.
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@sanders.senate.govApr 30, 2026, 2:02 PM

I enjoyed speaking with hunger and nutrition advocates from Vermont this week. In the richest country in the history of the world, nobody should be going hungry. I thank these advocates for their tireless efforts.

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@sanders.senate.govApr 29, 2026, 8:14 PM

Ex-OpenAI board member Helen Toner says AI companies are "deadly serious" about building machines that outperform humans at everything and they don’t know if they’ll be able to control them.   So why hasn’t Congress taken meaningful action to regulate AI?

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@sanders.senate.govApr 29, 2026, 2:28 PM

We need healthcare and affordable housing for all Americans, not taxpayer funding for war crimes.

BERNIE
SANDERS
U.S. SENATOR for VERMONT
ican people are saying, wait second,
we can't afford healthcare. We can't afford groceries.
We can't afford housing.
And you're putting billions of dollars into the right-wing
extremist government of Netanyahu who committed
genocide in Gaza, who started war in Iran...
SOURCE
aced million people in Lebanon and
who is displacing thousands in the West Bank?
Why should we continue to fund that?
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@sanders.senate.govApr 28, 2026, 10:32 PM

The FCC is now threatening ABC's broadcast licenses, days after Donald Trump and Melania Trump demanded they fire Jimmy Kimmel. This is straight out of the authoritarian playbook. Mr. President: Read the Constitution. Freedom of speech is the First Amendment for good reason.

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@sanders.senate.govApr 21, 2026, 9:05 PM

Trump is considering a large bailout for a multibillionaire dictator while he cuts health care for 15 million Americans. This is insane. The working families of the United States need help, not one of the richest families in the world.

AAaron Rupar@atrupar.comApr 21, 2026, 1:12 PM

KERNEN: Is there some type of currency swap possible with UAE to help if they need it? And do you think there'd be backlash? TRUMP: It is. It's been a good country, a good ally of ours. It was shocking because we didn't think they'd get hit. I'm surprised, because they are really rich.

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@sanders.senate.govApr 21, 2026, 6:30 PM

Woe to
and the
very name of God for their
own military, economic and
Political gain, dragging that
which is sacred into
darkness and filth.
Pope Leo
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@sanders.senate.govApr 20, 2026, 9:23 PM

Read my new Fox News op-ed: www.foxnews.com/opinion/sen-...

foxnews.comSEN BERNIE SANDERS: Artificial intelligence is coming for the working class. We must fight backLegislation sponsored by Sen. Bernie Sanders calls for a federal moratorium on new AI data centers until safeguards protect workers from mass job losses driven by Big Tech oligarchs.
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@sanders.senate.govApr 20, 2026, 9:22 PM

In the 1990s, the working class of this country was told that unfettered free trade would create millions of new jobs and raise wages. As many of us understood then, that claim was a lie. Now they’re being sold the same false promises about AI.

Artificial intelligence is
coming for the working
class. st fight back
By Bernie
elbein AP)
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@sanders.senate.govApr 20, 2026, 6:50 PM

Dockworkers on the West Coast broke every productivity record — and are now being replaced by AI anyway.

This isn’t about efficiency. It’s about eliminating workers.

youtu.be/35CDCU5chKE?...

youtu.beThis isn’t about efficiency. It’s about eliminating workers.YouTube video by Senator Bernie Sanders
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@sanders.senate.govApr 16, 2026, 12:05 AM

Today, more than 80% of the Democratic caucus stood with the American people and voted to block U.S. military aid to Netanyahu and his horrific, illegal wars.

Sen. Bernie Sanders
We are making progress.
Today, more than 80% of the Democratic caucus
stood with the American people and voted to
block U.S. military aid to Netanyahu and his
horrific, illegal wars.
When we started this effort there were just 11
votes. Now, there are 40.
That shift reflects where the American people are.
Americans, whether they are Democrats,
Republicans or Independents, want to see our tax
money invested in improving lives here at home
not used to kill innocent women and children in
the Middle East and put American troops in harm’s
way as part of Netanyahu’s illegal wars of
expansion.
What’s astonishing is that, despite overwhelming
opposition across this country, Republicans
continue to side with Netanyahu and Trump.
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@sanders.senate.govApr 15, 2026, 8:26 PM

I'm proud to support the nurses at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago who are fighting to form a union. If RUMC can pay its CEO over $4 million a year, it can afford to provide better working conditions for nurses & staffing levels that are safe for their patients.

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@sanders.senate.govApr 15, 2026, 5:02 PM

Read my new piece in The Guardian here: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

theguardian.comNo more US military aid to Israel | Bernie SandersThe time is long overdue for members of Congress to listen to the American people and end US military aid to the extremist Netanyahu government
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@sanders.senate.govApr 15, 2026, 5:02 PM

For Netanyahu, the war in Gaza was not enough. Iran was not enough. He is now waging a full-blown war of expansion in Lebanon. The time is long overdue for Congress to listen to the American people and end U.S. military aid to the extremist Israeli government.

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@sanders.senate.govApr 13, 2026, 2:58 PM

This week, I will be forcing a vote on legislation to block the sale of nearly half a billion dollars worth of bombs and bulldozers to the Israeli military. The extremist Netanyahu government that has committed genocide in Gaza does not need more military support from American taxpayers.

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@sanders.senate.govApr 7, 2026, 8:48 PM

It is very easy to become accustomed to Trump’s ravings, and laugh them off. That’s a dangerous thing to do. When Trump states: “A whole civilization will die tonight,” he is threatening to commit genocide. We can’t allow that to happen. Congress must end this war NOW.

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@sanders.senate.govApr 6, 2026, 7:34 PM

The American people do not want endless war.

The people of our country,
no matter their political persuasion,
They want decent-paying jobs, and
health care and housing they can
afford.
LET’S GET OUR PRIORITIES RIGHT!
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@sanders.senate.govApr 4, 2026, 7:00 PM

Trump’s obscene budget.

Last year, while the billionaire class became much richer as the working class struggled to survive, Trump gave a $1 trillion tax break to the 1% and paid for it by throwing 15 million Americans off the health care they desperately need.

This year, while Trump and Netanyahu started a war in Iran, the president wants to increase military spending by $500 billion and pay for that war by reducing funding for childcare, health care, affordable housing and other domestic needs. 

This is what Trump’s agenda is all about: making himself and his fellow Oligarchs even richer, while decimating programs that working families, the elderly and the children rely on.

That is an obscene set of priorities. Congress must reject this proposal and pass a budget that works for all of us, not just the 1%.
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