WASHINGTON, March 28 – Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Monday issued the following statement after President Joe Biden released his fiscal year 2023 federal budget proposal: I thank the President for submitting his budget proposal to Congress and I look forward to reviewing it closely. At a time when corporations […]
WASHINGTON, March 23 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, today announced that the committee will hold a hearing Wednesday, March 30, at 11 a.m., on “The President’s Fiscal Year 2023 Budget Proposal.” Testifying at the hearing will be Shalanda Young, Director of the Office of Management and Budget. Hearing DetailsWhat: Hearing […]
WASHINGTON, Feb. 14 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, announced Monday that the committee will hold a hearing Thursday, February 17, titled “Warrior Met and Wall Street Greed: What Corporate Raiders are Doing to Workers and Consumers” to examine growing oligarchy on Wall Street through the case study of Warrior […]
WASHINGTON, Jan. 25 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, today announced that the committee will hold a hearing Tuesday, February 1, at 2:30 p.m., to consider the nomination of the Honorable Shalanda D. Young of Louisiana to be Director of the Office of Management and Budget, and the nomination of […]
WASHINGTON, August 9 — Senate Budget Committee Chairman Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) Monday issued the following statement after he joined with Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) to introduce the FY 2022 budget resolution, which includes reconciliation instructions for Congress to craft sweeping legislation to invest in the long-neglected needs of the working class: “The $3.5 trillion […]
WASHINGTON, May 28 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, Friday issued the following statement after President Joe Biden released his fiscal year 2022 federal budget proposal: “The budget that President Biden has submitted to Congress constitutes the most significant agenda for working families in the modern history of our country. […]
WASHINGTON, May 10 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) today announced that the Senate Budget Committee will hold a hearing Wednesday, May 12 at 11 a.m., on “Waste, Fraud, Cost Overruns, and Auditing at the Pentagon.” Over the past 20 years, the military industrial complex has spent over $2.6 billion in lobbying and campaign contributions to […]
WASHINGTON, April 9 — Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, on Friday issued the following statement after President Joe Biden introduced his FY 2022 discretionary budget request: “At a time of massive wealth and income inequality, when tens of millions of Americans continue to recover from the worst economic and public health […]
WASHINGTON, April 8 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) today announced that the Senate Budget Committee will hold a hearing Thursday, April 15 at 11 a.m., on “The Cost of Inaction on Climate Change.” 2019 set the record for global carbon pollution, while 2020 tied for the warmest year on record. Last year also saw the worst […]
WASHINGTON, March 12 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) today announced that on Wednesday, March 17, the Senate Budget Committee will hold a hearing on income and wealth inequality in America. Millions of Americans are unemployed, underemployed or have given up looking for work, while hunger in the country is at the highest level in decades. […]
WASHINGTON, March 10 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Saturday issued the following statement after the U.S. Senate voted to pass a $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package: “As Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, I am proud that we passed the American Rescue Plan, which, in my view, is the most significant piece of legislation […]
WASHINGTON, March 4 — Today, along with Majority Leader Schumer (D-N.Y.) and the chairs of 11 other Senate committees, Senate Budget Committee Chairman Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) introduced the Senate’s version of The American Rescue Plan Act. The American Rescue Plan Act is a $1.9 trillion rescue plan that will accelerate America’s vaccination effort, cut child poverty in half, […]
WASHINGTON, February 2 — Today, incoming Chairman Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) introduced a budget resolution that the Senate will be debating this week to enable Congress to fast track President Biden’s $1.9 trillion emergency COVID-relief through reconciliation with 51 votes. Read the report here. Read the section-by-section here. Read the text of the resolution here.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 12 – The Democrats on the Senate Budget Committee sent a letter to Chairman Mike Enzi today expressing their frustration over the chairman’s decision to not hold a hearing on the president’s Fiscal Year 2021 budget request. “This year, the President’s budget proposes tax cuts of $1.4 trillion while at the same time […]
WASHINGTON, February 10—In response to the release of the Trump Administration’s federal budget proposal, Senate Budget Committee Ranking Member Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said: “The Trump Budget for 2021 is a budget of, by, and for the 1 percent. It reflects profoundly unethical priorities and shows that the president is—and it gives me no great pleasure […]
Nov. 6 – Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee, issued the following statement as the Committee prepares to mark up S.2765, the Bipartisan Congressional Budget Reform Act: “While I appreciate Chairman Enzi and Senator Whitehouse’s hard work in putting together a package to reform the budget process, I do not support […]
WASHINGTON, May 6 – U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders issued the following statement regarding the retirement of Senator Mike Enzi (R-WY): Although we have had serious differences on policy issues, I consider Sen. Enzi a friend whom I’ve enjoyed working with in our time leading the Budget Committee and the Subcommittee on Primary Health and Retirement Security. […]
The Senate Republican Budget is immoral and bad economic policy. In almost every instance this budget ignores the needs of ordinary Americans and what the American people want, while at the same time protecting the interests of the wealthiest and most powerful people in this country – many of whom are the largest GOP campaign […]
On March 11, 2019, President Trump released his Fiscal Year 2020 budget, a document that is breathtaking in its degree of cruelty and is filled with broken promises. What follows is a list of some of the most egregious proposals from the Trump Budget. If Trump’s Budget for 2020 became law, it would: Repeal the […]
The Trump budget is breathtaking in its degree of cruelty and filled with broken promises. Donald Trump promised the American people that he would be a different type of Republican, that he would be a champion of the working American and that he would not cut Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. But his budget does […]
WASHINGTON, Oct. 15 – Following an announcement Monday from the Treasury that the federal government ran a deficit of $779 billion in Fiscal Year 2018, the Democratic staff on the Senate Budget Committee released a report showing that the federal government would be running a surplus today if not for four Republican policies. Without the […]
On February 12, 2018, President Trump released his Fiscal Year 2019 budget. The Trump Budget is not a moral budget. It is a budget that takes our collective resources and hands them to the wealthiest families and largest corporations in this country and ignores the needs of the most vulnerable among us. What follows is […]
WASHINGTON, Dec. 19 – The Senate parliamentarian advised Tuesday that three provisions in the Republican tax bill violate the Byrd rule, including a provision allowing for the use of 529 savings accounts for home-schooling expenses, the short title: “The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act,” and part of the criteria used to determine whether the endowments […]
WASHINGTON, July 27 – The Senate parliamentarian determined Thursday that portions of Section 207, “Waivers for State Innovation,” of the Republican health bill are not permissible under Senate rules. Notably, the part that would have amended Section 1332 of the Affordable Care Act to allow states to waive essential health benefits and other pre-existing condition requirements […]
WASHINGTON, July 25 – The Senate parliamentarian determined Tuesday that additional provisions of the Republican “Better Care Reconciliation Act” released on June 26, 2017, violate the Byrd Rule. Should the Senate proceed to the bill, these provisions may be struck from the legislation absent 60 votes. “Not only is the legislation being proposed by Republican leadership a disaster […]
BURLINGTON, Vt., July 21 – U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) issued the following statement Friday after the Senate parliamentarian determined that the “Buffalo Bailout,” a provision of the Republican health care bill specifically targeting New York state, is in violation of Senate reconciliation rules: “Today, the Senate parliamentarian made a determination that at least a […]
BURLINGTON, Vt., July 21 – The Senate parliamentarian determined Friday that certain provisions of the Republican “Better Care Reconciliation Act,” released on June 26, are impermissible under Senate reconciliation rules. Should the Senate proceed to the bill, these provisions may be struck from the legislation absent 60 votes. “The parliamentarian’s decision today proves once again […]
WASHINGTON, June 6 – Following the Senate parliamentarian’s ruling on the House health care bill, Josh Miller-Lewis, a spokesman for Sen. Bernie Sanders, issued the statement below: “The parliamentarian has ruled in favor of the Republicans on one narrow procedural issue, but it remains to be seen whether the House-passed bill qualifies for reconciliation in […]
WASHINGTON, Jan. 4 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) slammed a Republican budget plan introduced Wednesday that he said would throw millions off health insurance, drive up already-skyrocketing prices seniors pay for prescription drugs and pave the way for cuts to Medicare and Medicaid. In a Senate floor speech, Sanders also called on President-elect Donald Trump […]
BURLINGTON, Vt., Aug. 18 – Total wealth in the United States doubled between 1989 and 2013, but the wealth of the American family right in the middle of the economy barely budged in that time, according to a new report prepared by the Congressional Budget Office for U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.). “Over the period […]