Sen. Bernie Sanders

Today we forced Trump to release $1.3 billion for more than 10,000 summer & afterschool programs helping 1.4 million students. It's not enough. He's still illegally withholding $5.5 billion more from schools. Congress passed it. The president signed it. Trump must release it.

A Tennessee woman was denied prenatal care by her doctor because she is "unwed." Let's be clear: the Republican agenda is not pro-life or pro-family. If it were, pregnant women wouldn't be forced to flee their home states to get basic prenatal care.

Today, 4 hedge fund managers on Wall St. earn more in a year than every kindergarten teacher in America combined. Teachers: join us for a town hall tomorrow w/ leaders from the AFT & NEA to discuss the enormously important issue of raising teacher pay & saving public education.

Today, Trump sold out the young people of America and future generations. He will give the fossil fuel industry the unrestricted ability to release carbon emissions and accelerate the existential threat of climate change. How much in campaign contributions is that worth?

I met with Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian student at Columbia University, who was imprisoned for 104 days by the Trump administration for opposing Netanyahu’s illegal & horrific war in Gaza. Outrageous. We must not allow Trump to destroy the First Amendment & freedom to dissent.

Trump is putting the planet and future generations at risk for the short-term profits of his fossil fuel executive friends.

My thoughts on the Epstein files:

Congratulations to Vermont Green on their Round of 16 victory against FC Motown. They remain undefeated. Vermont is a soccer state! I appreciated the opportunity to say hello on Sunday and wish the team well.

Undocumented immigrants often do the most difficult, dangerous & underpaid jobs in the US. They pick crops, work in meatpacking plants, nursing homes & childcare centers. Many DIED as essential workers during COVID. We need comprehensive immigration reform, not mass deportations.

Netanyahu’s atrocities are not limited to Gaza. He has also unleashed terrorist settlers in the West Bank who attack civilians and recently beat a young American to death. Even Trump’s ambassador, Mike Huckabee, called this a “terrorist act.” NO MORE MILITARY AID TO ISRAEL.

Fenway Park is an iconic American institution, and it’s the workers there that make every Red Sox game special. The team is extremely profitable. They should treat their employees with respect, pay them decent wages and negotiate a fair contract with the union.

I enjoyed meeting yesterday with Hailey Chase & McKenzie Forbes, officers in the Vermont Future Farmers of America. Family farms in Vermont & across the country are struggling. It’s imperative that we bring young people back into agriculture. Thank you Future Farmers of America.

Over 130 @UAW Local 95 workers with Mercyhealth in Wisconsin are striking for better wages and affordable health insurance. It is absurd that medical workers cannot afford their own health care. Mercyhealth needs to come to the table with a fair offer for their workers NOW.

Like all authoritarians, Trump doesn’t like criticism or objective reporting. He just wants flattery. That’s why he wants to defund NPR and PBS. We need media in this country that is not owned by billionaires and corporate interests. I will vote to support public broadcasting.

Widespread flooding in Texas, New York, Vermont & elsewhere. Trump’s belief that climate change is a “hoax” will destroy communities & cost us hundreds of billions in damages. If we, and the global community, do not get our act together what we're seeing will only get worse.

Israel’s far right tried to expel Ayman Odeh, an Arab Israeli opposition leader, from the Knesset because of his opposition to Netanyahu’s war. Today, they failed. If Israel is going to be considered a democracy, it cannot expel members of parliament for their political views.

My colleagues and I strongly condemn the effort to expel MK Ayman Odeh from the Israeli Knesset, which is a direct response to Odeh’s brave calls for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. If Israel is going to call itself a democracy, it must tolerate peaceful dissent.

From May 2024 to May 2025, 4 billion people (half of the world’s population) experienced at least one extra month of extreme heat due to climate change. And what is Trump’s response? He just fired the last remaining State Department employees who work on climate change.

Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” invests over $50 BILLION per year for vouchers that let private schools pick and choose which students to educate. The American people do not want to privatize public education, they want to strengthen it.

Afterschool and summer programs are enormously important for children’s development. I had a great time yesterday visiting wonderful summer programs in Richford and Sheldon, Vermont.