Chairman's Press
MEDIA ADVISORY: Chairman Sanders to Hold Budget Committee Hearing on Corporate Greed
WASHINGTON, April 1 - Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, announced Friday that the committee will hold a hearing Tuesday, April 5, at 11 a.m. titled "Corporate Profits are Soaring as Prices Rise: Are Corporate Greed and Profiteering Fueling Inflation?" Tuesday's hearing comes as working families across the country are increasingly bearing the brunt of growing economic pain and inequality. Across every major industry, prices continue to rise - this includes a 3… Continue Reading
03.28.22
NEWS: Senate Budget Committee Chairman Sanders Statement on President Biden’s FY 2023 Budget Proposal
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 are making obscene profits by charging outrageously high prices for gas, food and rent, we need a budget that takes on the unprecedented corporat… Continue Reading
03.23.22
MEDIA ADVISORY: Chairman Sanders Announces Budget Committee Hearing on President Biden’s FY 2023 Budget
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 of the Committee on the Budget to consider "The President's Fiscal Year 2023 Budget Proposal"When: Wednesday, March 30, 2022, 11 a.m. … Continue Reading
02.14.22
NEWS: Senate Budget Committee to Hold Hearing on Wall Street Greed and Growing Oligarchy in America
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 Met Coal in Alabama where workers have spent the last 11 months on strike. The three largest asset management firms on Wall Street - BlackRock, Van… Continue Reading
01.25.22
MEDIA ADVISORY: Chairman Sanders Announces Budget Committee Hearing on Nominations for the Office of Management and Budget
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 the Honorable Nani A. Coloretti of California to be Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget. Hearing DetailsWhat: Senate Budget Committee Hearing on N… Continue Reading
08.09.21
NEWS: Senate Budget Chairman Sanders and Majority Leader Schumer Introduce Historic Budget Resolution
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 Budget Resolution that I am introducing today will allow the Senate to move forward on a reconciliation bill that… Continue Reading
05.28.21
Senate Budget Committee Chairman Sanders Statement on President Biden’s Budget Proposal
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. At a time when more than half of our people are living paycheck to paycheck and tens of millions of Americans continue to struggle,… Continue Reading
05.10.21
MEDIA ADVISORY: Chairman Sanders Announces Senate Budget Committee Hearing on Wasteful Pentagon Spending
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 influence Congress. Currently, the U.S. spends more on our nation's military than the next nine countries combined and over half of our discretionary spending go… Continue Reading
04.09.21
NEWS: Sanders Statement on President Biden’s Discretionary Budget Request
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 crisis in modern history, I'm glad that President Biden has presented a discretionary budget that begins to address the urgent unmet needs… Continue Reading
04.08.21
MEDIA ADVISORY: Chairman Sanders Announces Senate Budget Committee Hearing on the Cost of Inaction on Climate Change
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 U.S. wildfire season and the most active Atlantic hurricane season on record. More than 20% of humanity's total emissions have occurred over the past 10 years, and in the past 2… Continue Reading
03.12.21
MEDIA ADVISORY: Chairman Sanders Announces Senate Budget Hearing on the Income and Wealth Inequality Crisis in America
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. During the coronavirus pandemic, 63 percent of workers are living paycheck to paycheck, including millions of essential workers who put their lives on the line … Continue Reading
03.10.21
Chairman Sanders Statement on Passage of The American Rescue Plan
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 to benefit working families in the modern history of this country. This package, among many other things, increases direct payments by $1,400, extends unemployment… Continue Reading
03.04.21
Chairman Sanders Introduces The American Rescue Plan Act
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, extend a lifeline to the unemployed, provide aid to working families, ensure that state and local governments can keep p… Continue Reading
02.02.21
Incoming Chairman Sanders Introduces Budget Resolution
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.… Continue Reading
02.12.20
Budget Committee Democrats Express Frustration Over Lack of Hearing on President’s Budget
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 calling for funding cuts for vital health care programs by a similar amount. Budget Committee members deserve the opportunity to highlight these proposals and ques… Continue Reading
02.10.20
Sanders Calls on Congress to Reject Trump’s Budget “Of, By, and For the 1 Percent”
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 to say this-a liar. Just last week, President Trump told the American people in his State of the Union that he would 'always protect your Medicare'… Continue Reading
11.06.19
Sanders Statement on the Bipartisan Congressional Budget Reform Act
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 the bill in its current form. "Though this bill has some positive aspects, at its core is the creation of a new, expansive 'budget reconcili… Continue Reading
05.06.19
Sanders Statement on the Retirement of Senator Mike Enzi
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. I wish him and his family all the best in his retirement.… Continue Reading
03.26.19
The Senate Republican Budget: Cutting Medicare, Medicaid, and Education to Pay for Tax Breaks to the Top 1 Percent
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 contributors. This is a budget that moves this country rapidly in the direction of oligarchy. It constitutes a massive transfer of wealth from the working class to the b… Continue Reading
03.20.19
The Trump Budget for 2020: State Fact Sheets
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 Affordable Care Act, eliminating health insurance for 32 million Americans, abolishing protections for people with pre-existing conditions, and substantially increasing premiums for… Continue Reading
