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U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, Chair of the Senate Budget Committee, is the longest-serving independent in congressional history.

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  1. Feb 8

    I congratulate Speaker Pelosi, Chairman Scott and for including a $15 minimum wage in the House reconciliation bill. In 2021, a job should lift workers out of poverty, not keep them in it. Increasing the minimum wage will give tens of millions of workers a raise.

    BIG NEWS: the Progressive Caucus has secured the inclusion of a $15 minimum wage in the House's pandemic reconciliation package. This has been a leading priority for our caucus and would give 27 million (!) low-wage workers a raise.
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  2. Feb 8

    The CBO has demonstrated that increasing the minimum wage would have a direct and substantial impact on the federal budget. What that means is that we can clearly raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour under the rules of budget reconciliation.

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  3. Feb 6

    I strongly oppose lowering income eligibility for direct payments from $75,000 to $50,000 for individuals and $150,000 to $100,000 for couples. In these difficult times, ALL working class people deserve the full $1,400. Last I heard, someone making $55,000 a year is not "rich."

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  4. Feb 5

    My message to Jeff Bezos and Amazon is clear: These despicable anti-union tactics must stop. Every worker in this country has the right to join a union. Period.

    3:51
    NEW: Amazon workers are exposing what's happening in Alabama. They say Amazon is forcing them into anti-union meetings, texting them up to 5x daily, putting messages in bathrooms, even changing traffic light patterns to harm union organizing.
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  5. Feb 5

    Now is the time to raise the minimum wage to $15, pull millions out of poverty, and provide small-business support to make it happen. Yes. The Democratic Congress can and must fulfill President Biden's promise to the American people. Let's get it done.

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  6. Feb 5

    Today, with the passage of this budget resolution to provide relief to our working families, we have the opportunity not only to address the pandemic and the economic collapse—we have the opportunity to give hope to the American people and restore faith in our government.

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  7. Feb 4

    If Republicans want to work with us to address this unprecedented economic crisis, welcome—let’s do it. But we cannot wait weeks and weeks, and months and months, to provide relief to the American people. We have got to act now, and that’s exactly what we’re doing.

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  8. Retweeted
    Feb 4

    Today marks the beginning of a new era in our foreign policy - one that prioritizes human rights and diplomatic solutions. Even when & I passed our bipartisan War Powers Resolution, Trump still vetoed it. Biden is prioritizing human life over military might.

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    BREAKING: President Biden "will announce an end to American support for offensive operations in Yemen" on Thursday, NSA Jake Sullivan announces.
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  9. Feb 4

    Instead of listening to the billionaire class, now is the time for the Senate to listen to the needs of working families, the elderly, the sick, the disabled, and the poor. Let us pass this Budget Resolution to provide the relief Americans need.

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  10. Feb 4

    Today's announcement that the White House will end military support for the Saudi-led war in the Yemen war is a tribute to the work of so many activists over the years. Yemen needs food, medicine, and health care—not bombs and blockades.

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  11. Feb 3

    We are living in an unprecedented moment in history. Now is the time to restore faith that the American government works for all of us, not just those at the top.

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  12. Feb 3

    It is no secret millions of Americans have given up on democracy. They think that we don’t care about working people. This week, we not only begin addressing the health and economic crises we face, but—maybe even more importantly—we begin restoring faith in the U.S. government.

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  13. Feb 2

    If Republicans could use budget reconciliation to help the wealthy and the powerful, and pass legislation strongly opposed by the American people, we can use that same process to help Americans recover from the worst economic and public health crisis in modern history.

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  14. Retweeted
    Feb 2

    Incoming Senate Budget Committee Chairman introduces a budget resolution to enable Congress to fast-track President Biden’s $1.9 trillion emergency COVID relief package through budget reconciliation.

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  15. Feb 1

    For the second weekend in a row, thousands of brave Russians took to the streets to protest the corrupt rule of Putin and his thieving oligarchs. Unjustly imprisoned activists, including Alexei Navalny, must be released.

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  16. Jan 31

    At a time of massive crises facing working families, my Republican colleagues have suddenly become very concerned about the deficit. That's funny. I didn't hear these concerns when they passed trillions in tax breaks for the rich & a blank check for endless wars. What hypocrisy!

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  17. Jan 30

    McDonald’s worker in the US: $9/hr McDonald’s worker in Denmark: $22/hr, 6 weeks of annual vacation, a union, 1 year of paid family leave, life insurance and pension. America must join the rest of the industrialized world and ensure that our working class can live with dignity.

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  18. Jan 29

    Wall Street cannot continue functioning as a gambling casino. It's time for a tax on Wall Street speculation so that we can raise the funds to cancel student debt and make public colleges and universities tuition-free.

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  19. Jan 28

    The business model of Wall Street is fraud.

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  20. Jan 28

    Minimum wage in 1968 (in today's dollars): $11.84 Federal minimum wage in 2021: $7.25 Please do not tell me that in the richest country on Earth, we cannot guarantee a living wage of at least $15 an hour to every worker in America.

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