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NEWS: Sanders, Cassidy Applaud Senate Advancement of Bipartisan Reauthorization of the Older Americans Act

first signed into law in 1965, funds a wide range of services. The act has provided vital nutrition

NEWS: Sanders Introduces Legislation to Create $7 Trillion AI Sovereign Wealth Fund

today introduced the American AI Sovereign Wealth Fund Act to give the public a 50% ownership … stock would be deposited into the sovereign wealth fund. If passed, Sanders’ bill would do three crucial things

The Public Should Own Half of the Big A.I. Companies

soon be introducing the American A.I. Sovereign Wealth Fund Act. This legislation would give the public a direct … country. How? It would create a sovereign wealth fund through a one-time 50 percent

NEWS: Sanders, 34 Senators Demand McMahon Reverse Failed Policies, Protect Students from Discrimination and Harassment

discriminatory school discipline. Despite receiving the same funding as the prior year, the report found OCR provided relief

NEWS: Sanders, Lee to Introduce Bill to Abolish Super PACs, Stop Billionaires from Buying Candidates

Change, Grassroots Global Justice Action Fund, IfNotNow Movement, Jewish Voice for Peace Action, Justice is Global Action, Move … Amend, MPower Change Action Fund, National Iranian American Council Action, Our Revolution, Peace Action, RepresentUs, RootsAction, Rural Organizing

NEWS: Sanders, Omar, More Than 100 Colleagues Introduce Legislation to End Child Hunger Through Universal School Meals

assistance from millions of Americans, and refusing to fund SNAP during the federal government shutdown in fall … Congress funded universal school meals during the COVID-19 pandemic, proving that the model increases school meal participation

NEWS: Sanders Successfully Pushes Trump Administration to Release Education Funding for Vermont

million in federal K-12 COVID-19 funding for 20 Vermont school districts and the Agency of Education … administration, Vermont school districts will finally receive federal funding for summer and afterschool programs, school renovations and other

NEWS: Sanders, Welch, Balint Demand Trump Admin Release $4 Million in Anti-Poverty Funding to Vermont

immediately release more than $810 million in federal funding that helps more than 10 million Americans living … urging you to immediately release this vital funding so that over 48,000 Vermonters and 10 million people

NEWS: Sanders Files Joint Resolutions of Disapproval to Block Nearly $660 Million in Bomb Sales to Israel

transfer of over $658 million of taxpayer-funded bombs to the Netanyahu government. It is clear that prolonging

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NEWS: Sanders, Welch, Balint Secure More than $100 Million for Vermont in Federal Funding Bills

today announced more than $100 million in federal funding they secured on behalf of 69 projects addressing critical … needs across Vermont. The funding for these Congressionally Directed Spending projects, or “earmarks,” was included in the three

ADVISORY: Sanders, Welch to Announce Millions in Federal Funding for Vermont

conference in Montpelier to announce millions in federal funding that the Vermont congressional delegation secured for 69 Vermont … projects addressing critical needs across the state. The funding for these projects, or “earmarks,” was included

NEWS: Sanders Report Details How Trump Broke Promises to Patients, Cut $561 Million from Lifesaving Research While Failing to Lower Prescription Drug Prices

banned words to decide which research gets funded, including apartheid, adolescent, COVID, climate change, inequity and natural disasters … prescription drug prices for medicines developed with taxpayer-funded NIH research. The report finds thatevery single drug invented

NEWS: Sanders Statement after Voting Against Federal Funding Bill

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

NEWS: Sanders Secures Vote on His Amendment to Cut $75 Billion in ICE Funding and Redirect Those Funds to Medicaid

Senate vote on his amendment to the government funding package to repeal the $75 billion funding increase … violation of our Constitution,”Sanders said.“Instead of funding Trump’s domestic army, we should instead use that

NEWS: Sanders Releases New Report Detailing How Trump’s Plan to Privatize Public Education Hurts Students

wealthy and well-connected and severely under-funded public schools for low-income and working-class students. That

NEWS: Sanders Statement: “ICE is Out of Control”

Constitution. Congress must vote NO on any additional funding for DHS.Further, here is SOME of what else

Ranking Member Bernie Sanders Statement on Bipartisan Health Care Deal in New Minibus Funding Agreement

centers will receive the largest increase in mandatory funding in a decade, equivalent to a rate … Corps will receive a 13 percent increase in funding compared to a few years ago, equivalent

NEWS: Sanders, Van Hollen, Alsobrooks Introduce Bill to Ban Presidents from Naming Buildings After Themselves

this bill prohibits the use of any federal funds for these meaningless vanity projects,”Alsobrooks said On December … this legislation as an amendment to the government funding minibus being voted on this week in the Senate

NEWS: Sanders, HELP Committee Democrats Call on Cassidy to Hold Hearing on Trump’s Efforts to Dismantle Education Department

Department under numerous laws, and Congress explicitly appropriated funding to the Department to carry them out”wrote Sanders … massive and unprecedented transfer of responsibility and federal funding to other agencies. Therefore, we are calling

NEWS: Sanders Announces More Than $20 Million for Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program

will receive more than $20.7 million in federal funding through the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program. “Being … Vermont congressional delegation works to ensure this funding reaches Vermont as soon as it is signed into

Republicans finally want to talk about health care. That’s good — but their ideas are absurd.

address the primary care crisis by substantially increasing funding for Community Health Centers, the National Health Service Corps

Congress just made our healthcare system worse — Here’s the fix

disease prevention and primary care. It would be funded by a progressive tax system that would require

VIDEO: Sanders Update on State of the Shutdown: Day 36

will be devastated because of cuts in government funding. They will have to, in some cases, close down

MEDIA ADVISORY: Sanders, Senators to Hold Press Conference on Trump Administration’s Refusal to Use SNAP Emergency Funds

billion emergency Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) fund to prevent 42 million Americans, including 16 million children … refuse to use roughly $5 billion in contingency funds to keep the program running during the ongoing government