Bernie Sanders

Bernie Sanders @SenSanders

If Rob Walton, a key owner of Walmart, can afford an estimated $226 million for an antique car collection that includes 12 Ferraris, 6 Porsches, 2 Maseratis and a 1963 Corvette Grand Sport Roadster, you know what? Walmart can afford to pay at least $15/hour to all of its workers. — PolitiTweet.org

Bernie Sanders @SenSanders

Fancy cars. Expensive art. Huge houses. The Waltons – the wealthiest family in the country – spend millions on themselves, but refuse to pay their workers a living wage. https://t.co/9bE0YI0d3i — PolitiTweet.org

Bernie Sanders @SenSanders

I am very concerned by last night’s strike by U.S. forces in Syria. The president has the responsibility to keep Americans safe, but for too long administrations of both parties have interpreted their authorities in an extremely expansive way to continue war. This must end. https://t.co/AnU2On6QC1 — PolitiTweet.org

Bernie Sanders @SenSanders

It is time for the owners of the nation’s most profitable corporations to pay their workers a living wage. That isn’t a radical idea in the richest country in the history of the world. https://t.co/z8oGpfO31y — PolitiTweet.org

Bernie Sanders @SenSanders

I strongly disagree with tonight’s decision by the Senate Parliamentarian. But the fight to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour continues. https://t.co/pGwrYKjOel — PolitiTweet.org

Bernie Sanders @SenSanders

Today, I asked the CEOs of Walmart and McDonald's a simple question: Why should taxpayers subsidize the starvation wages of their profitable corporations. If they think they can avoid answering this question because they declined to testify at my hearing they are sorely mistaken. https://t.co/Ez2B1cHThN — PolitiTweet.org

Bernie Sanders @SenSanders

Taxpayers should not subsidize starvation wages paid by the largest and most profitable corporations in America. We must raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour. It’s morally right, and good for the economy. https://t.co/BqI5Kk7BY1 — PolitiTweet.org

Bernie Sanders @SenSanders

RT @fightfor15: "In 2019, @McDonald' made over 6 billion in profits and paid its CEO over 18 million in compensation, while the average wor… — PolitiTweet.org

Bernie Sanders @SenSanders

The Budget Committee is this morning holding a hearing on a simple question: Why should the taxpayers of this country subsidize starvation wages at some of the largest and most profitable corporations in America? https://t.co/aAiRhaMSQy — PolitiTweet.org

Bernie Sanders @SenSanders

The family that owns Walmart is worth more than $200 billion. The CEO of McDonalds received $18 million in compensation in 2019. Are we really supposed to believe they can’t afford to pay their workers $15 an hour? Absurd. https://t.co/LH4tXpYFQz https://t.co/c9Qf7310NY — PolitiTweet.org

Bernie Sanders @SenSanders

We must have the guts to stand up to special interests, and fight for the working class of this country. https://t.co/p1RoeiUTNy — PolitiTweet.org

Bernie Sanders @SenSanders

As the occupying power, Israel is responsible for the health of all the people under its control. It is outrageous that Netanyahu would use spare vaccines to reward his foreign allies while so many Palestinians in the occupied territories are still waiting. — PolitiTweet.org

Bernie Sanders @SenSanders

This initiative from the Biden administration to give Americans high-quality, reusable masks without cost at community health centers, food pantries and soup kitchens will save tens of thousands of lives – period. — PolitiTweet.org

Bernie Sanders @SenSanders

You cannot tell me that raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour is a radical idea. https://t.co/sGw7xhuzhj — PolitiTweet.org

Bernie Sanders @SenSanders

Today is the day millionaires stop paying into Social Security for the year. Meanwhile, working Americans pay into it all year. Enough! It is time to #ScrapTheCap so the ultra-rich contribute at the same rate as everyone else and we can expand—not cut—Social Security benefits. https://t.co/laf7gELb6E — PolitiTweet.org

Bernie Sanders @SenSanders

Working people in this country are living in great desperation, so of course selfish billionaires are buying ads to try and stop the relief bill. Sorry, Charles Koch. We’re going to pass this legislation, and then we’ll make sure you pay your fair share in taxes. — PolitiTweet.org

Bernie Sanders @SenSanders

Raising the minimum wage to a living wage is not just about economic justice – it is about racial justice. https://t.co/HpnNJyxLi5 — PolitiTweet.org

Bernie Sanders @SenSanders

Fast food workers built a grassroots movement to raise the minimum wage to a living wage of $15 an hour. Congress must now stand with them and take action. Working people must be able to live with dignity in the richest country in the world. — PolitiTweet.org

Bernie Sanders @SenSanders

While the very rich get richer, working class families today are facing economic devastation. Yes. We need to increase direct payment to $2000 for workers and their kids; raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour; expand the child tax credit and extend unemployment benefits. — PolitiTweet.org

Bernie Sanders @SenSanders

If Republicans could use reconciliation to try to take health care away from 32 million Americans by repealing the ACA, please don't tell me we can't use the same rules to provide a raise to 32 million workers by increasing the minimum wage to $15 an hour. No more excuses. — PolitiTweet.org

Bernie Sanders @SenSanders

Half of our workers are living paycheck to paycheck and millions of people are working for starvation wages. We nee… https://t.co/Kzye07jLyb — PolitiTweet.org

Bernie Sanders @SenSanders

Walmart & McDonald's pay wages so low that tens of thousands of their workers are forced to rely on food stamps, Medicaid & public housing. I invited the CEOs of these companies to a hearing to explain why they can't afford to pay a $15 minimum wage. Taxpayers deserve an answer. — PolitiTweet.org

Bernie Sanders @SenSanders

It is a moral outrage that the wealthiest family in America, the Walton family, still refuses to pay workers at Walmart at least $15 an hour. Over the past 3 years, the Walton family became $84 billion richer, while Walmart's minimum wage has remained stuck at $11. Unacceptable. — PolitiTweet.org

Bernie Sanders @SenSanders

There is no rational reason why Medicare pays nearly three times more than Medicaid and about twice as much as the VA for the same exact medicine, but that’s exactly what the CBO just found. Congress must end this national embarrassment. https://t.co/nMtItXZdRd — PolitiTweet.org

Bernie Sanders @SenSanders

.@RevDrBarber, AFL-CIO President @RichardTrumka, and SEIU President @MaryKayHenry are exactly right. We must end starvation wages and give 32 million Americans a raise by increasing the minimum wage to $15 an hour. — PolitiTweet.org

Bernie Sanders @SenSanders

Developed nations with the best healthcare, family leave, vacation & retirement benefits: 1. Denmark 2. The Netherlands 3. Finland 4. Sweden 5. Switzerland 6. Norway 7. Germany 8. UK 9. Canada 10. Japan 30. United States - Dead last We must end this international embarrassment — PolitiTweet.org

Bernie Sanders @SenSanders

That's great news. We need an Interior Secretary who has the guts to take on fossil fuel CEOs whose greed is destroying the planet. We need an Interior Secretary who will protect our environment. I'm confident Deb Haaland is that person and I am proud to support her nomination. — PolitiTweet.org

Bernie Sanders @SenSanders

A $15 minimum wage is not a radical idea. What's radical is the fact that millions of Americans are forced to work for starvation wages, while 650 billionaires became over $1 trillion richer during a global pandemic. Yes. We must raise the minimum wage to a living wage. — PolitiTweet.org

Bernie Sanders @SenSanders

It is truly sad and dangerous that only 7 Republicans voted to convict a president who is promoting a Big Lie, conspiracy theories and violence, and is aggressively trying to destroy American democracy. — PolitiTweet.org

Bernie Sanders @SenSanders

Pathetic. Trump’s attorneys still will not acknowledge that Trump lost the election. That’s what the Big Lie is all about. https://t.co/nIJiooZqpC — PolitiTweet.org