Sanders calls out 8 Senate Democrats for 'very, very bad vote' on government funding measure

Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., slammed the 8 Senate Democrats who signed up with Republican politicians in voting to advance a continuing resolution throughout the procedural vote in the U.S. Senate on Sunday.

Sanders called the relocation “an extremely, really bad vote” in a video published to his X account.

” Tonight, 8 Democrats voted with the Republicans to permit them to move forward on this continuing resolution,” Sanders stated. “And to my mind, this was an extremely, really bad vote.”

The continuing resolution was initially created to momentarily money the federal government and prevent a shutdown however, according to Sanders, it included arrangements or omissions that would raise health care premiums, set the phase for Medicaid cuts and advantage high-income earners through tax modifications.

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Sanders argued the procedure “raises health care premiums for over 20 million Americans by doubling, and sometimes tripling or quadrupling them.” He continued, “Individuals can’t pay for that when we are currently paying the greatest rates worldwide for health care.”

He goes on to state in the video that “it leads the way for 15 million individuals to be shaken off of Medicaid. Research studies reveal that will indicate some 50,000 Americans will pass away every year needlessly. And all of that was done to offer a trillion dollars in tax breaks to the 1%.”

” As everyone understands, simply on Tuesday, we had an election all over this nation,” Sanders stated. “And what the election revealed is that the American individuals desired us to withstand Trumpism– to his war versus working-class individuals, to his authoritarianism. That is what the American individuals desired. However this evening, that is not what occurred.”

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In Sanders’ video, he frames the procedural vote as not just about keeping the federal government open, however as representing a more comprehensive policy instructions that, in his view, weakened health care defenses and working-class interests.

” So we have actually got to move forward, do the very best that we can to make sure and secure working-class individuals, to make certain that the United States not just does not toss individuals off of health care, however ends the absurdity of being the only significant nation in the world that does not ensure health care to all individuals,” Sanders stated. “We have a great deal of work to do, however to be truthful with you, tonight was not an excellent night.”

According to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget plan Workplace (CBO), if the improved Affordable Care Act aids enacted under the American Rescue Strategy are permitted to end, countless Americans might deal with greater market premiums. The CBO’s 2023 analysis of health protection arrangements revealed that ending the broadened aids would considerably increase out-of-pocket expenses for enrollees in ACA markets.

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Senate Bulk Leader John Thune, R-S.D., and Senate Republicans are open to working out an extension to ending Obamacare tax credits, however just after the federal government resumes. ( Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Research studies mentioned by the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (AID), chaired by Sanders, have actually likewise approximated that massive cuts to Medicaid might result in 10s of countless avoidable deaths yearly.

In a 2023 assistance Committee report on Sanders’ site, the committee referenced peer-reviewed research study released in Health Affairs and The Lancet Public Health, identifying that a loss of Medicaid protection is connected with greater death due to reduced access to preventive and emergency situation care.

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The report is likewise supported by other files on the website, consisting of findings from a June 2025 letter from scientists at the Yale School of Public Health and the University of Pennsylvania’s Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, which alerted that proposed federal health care cuts “might result in over 51,000 avoidable deaths yearly.”

Sanders’ remarks were released on his main site in much of his press launches going back to March of this year and echo his longstanding opposition to Republican spending plan propositions he states prefer “the 1%” at the expenditure of working Americans.