Bernie Sanders slams 8 Democrats for voting with GOP on persevering with decision

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Sen. Bernie Sanders , I-Vt., criticized the eight Senate Democrats who joined Republicans in voting to advance a seamless decision throughout the procedural vote within the U.S. Senate on Sunday.

Sanders known as the transfer "a really, very unhealthy vote" in a video posted to his X account.

"Tonight, 8 Democrats voted with the Republicans to permit them to go ahead on this persevering with decision," Sanders mentioned. "And to my thoughts, this was a really, very unhealthy vote."

The persevering with decision was initially designed to briefly fund the federal authorities and avert a shutdown however, in accordance with Sanders, it contained provisions or omissions that might elevate healthcare premiums , set the stage for Medicaid cuts and profit high-income earners by tax modifications.

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Sanders argued the measure "raises healthcare premiums for over 20 million Individuals by doubling, and in some circumstances tripling or quadrupling them." He continued, "Individuals can’t afford that once we are already paying the very best costs on this planet for healthcare."

He goes on to say within the video that "it paves the way in which for 15 million individuals to be thrown off of Medicaid. Research present that may imply some 50,000 Individuals will die yearly unnecessarily. And all of that was completed to present a trillion {dollars} in tax breaks to the 1%."

"As all people is aware of, simply on Tuesday, we had an election throughout this nation," Sanders mentioned. "And what the election confirmed is that the American individuals wished us to face as much as Trumpism — to his conflict in opposition to working-class individuals, to his authoritarianism. That's what the American individuals wished. However tonight, that isn't what occurred."

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In Sanders’ video, he frames the procedural vote as not solely about protecting the federal government open, however as representing a broader coverage course that, in his view, undermined healthcare protections and working-class pursuits.

"So we’ve obtained to go ahead, do one of the best that we are able to to make sure and shield working-class individuals, to guarantee that the USA not solely doesn't throw individuals off of healthcare, however ends the absurdity of being the one main nation on earth that doesn’t assure healthcare to all individuals," Sanders mentioned. "Now we have a variety of work to do, however to be sincere with you, tonight was not an excellent night time."

Based on the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO), if the improved Inexpensive Care Act subsidies enacted below the American Rescue Plan are allowed to run out, thousands and thousands of Individuals might face greater market premiums. The CBO’s 2023 evaluation of well being protection provisions confirmed that ending the expanded subsidies would considerably improve out-of-pocket prices for enrollees in ACA marketplaces.

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Senate Majority Chief John Thune, R-S.D., and Senate Republicans are open to negotiating an extension to expiring Obamacare tax credit, however solely after the federal government reopens. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Photographs)

Research cited by the Senate Committee on Well being, Training, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), chaired by Sanders, have additionally estimated that large-scale cuts to Medicaid might result in tens of 1000's of preventable deaths yearly.

In a 2023 HELP Committee report on Sanders’ web site, the committee referenced peer-reviewed analysis printed in Well being Affairs and The Lancet Public Well being, figuring out {that a} lack of Medicaid protection is related to greater mortality on account of decreased entry to preventive and emergency care.

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The report can also be supported by different paperwork on the location, together with findings from a June 2025 letter from researchers on the Yale Faculty of Public Well being and the College of Pennsylvania’s Leonard Davis Institute of Well being Economics, which warned that proposed federal healthcare cuts "might result in over 51,000 preventable deaths yearly."

Sanders’ feedback have been printed on his official web site in lots of his press releases relationship again to March of this yr and echo his longstanding opposition to Republican budget proposals he says favor "the 1%" on the expense of working Individuals.