Tweets by Bernie Sanders in 2024

If Democrats hope to remain in power, they must adopt a progressive agenda that the American people will vote FOR – not just rail against someone to vote AGAINST. (January 17, 2024)

No amount of union busting can stop worker power. Congratulations to Starbucks workers all over the country for this major step forward and for making it clear to all workers: When we stand together, there is nothing we cannot accomplish. (February 29, 2024)

If you watch television in America, the word working class will never, ever be used. (March 1, 2024)

Thanks to an executive order signed by President Biden, the minimum wage for federal contractors has gone up to $15 an hour in 2022, $16.20 an hour in 2023 and $17.20 an hour today. Now is the time to increase the minimum wage for all workers to at least $17 an hour. (March 1, 2024)

Starting today, millionaires won't pay into Social Security for the rest of the year. Billionaires stopped paying the first day of 2024. This is absurd. If we make the wealthy pay their fair share, we can make Social Security solvent for 75 years and expand it by $2,400 a year. (March 2, 2024)

Today, I am announcing my intention to seek another term. (May 6, 2024)

No job is more important and more difficult than teaching our nation’s children. (May 9, 2024)

Corrupt real estate developers are gentrifying neighborhoods and forcing working families out of the homes and apartments, only to replace them with fancy condominiums and hotels that only the very rich can afford. We need affordable housing for all. (May 11, 2024)

Congrats to Jeremy Corbyn for winning his seat as an Independent in the UK elections with a strong grassroots campaign. Corbyn made the mistake of believing that the Labour Party should represent labor – and was expelled. His constituents disagreed. Now he’s back. (July 6, 2024)

Here’s a simple fact: If politicians stand with working families, working families will stand with you. As it turns out, lowering the retirement age & raising the minimum wage are very popular. Congratulations to the French Left for taking on right-wing extremism and winning. (July 8, 2024)

 

 

We must defeat Trump, end Citizens United & tax the rich. (July 12, 2024)

 

 

If we do not get our act together, we will see more drought, more flooding, and more extreme weather disturbances. We will see homes and businesses wiped out all over the world. Calling climate change "a hoax" endangers every future generation. (July 17, 2024)

 

 

There's no rational reason other than greed for Ozempic to cost nearly $1,000 in the United States while that same exact drug can be purchased for a fraction of the price in other countries. It's long due time for the pharmaceutical industry to stop ripping off Americans. (July 17, 2024)

Donald Trump, who has taken millions of dollars from the fossil fuel industry, has a solution to the climate crisis: “Drill, baby, drill.” Just on that basis alone, nobody in America should be voting for Donald Trump. (July 19, 2024) 

Ralph de la Torre, CEO of Steward Health Care, epitomizes the outrageous corporate greed of our for-profit health care system. (July 26, 2024)

 

 

Why do working class people live shorter lives than the very wealthy? (September 27, 2024)

 

 

If Donald Trump is elected, the struggle against climate change is over. The United States will withdraw from the movement toward sustainable energy. What kind of planet will we be leaving to our kids and future generations? That’s what’s on ballot this November. (October 25, 2024)

 

 

Elon Musk – the richest guy in the world – is allowed to pour zillions of dollars into Donald Trump's presidential campaign. Does that sound like democracy to you? We need to overturn Citizens United and move to the public funding of elections. (November 2, 2024)

 

 

If Donald Trump is elected: The struggle against climate change is over. Women will lose the right to control their own bodies. We'll have no shot at raising the minimum wage. Humanitarian aid will not reach starving people in Gaza. Do not sit this election out. (November 4, 2024)

 

 

It should come as no great surprise that a Democratic Party which has abandoned working class people would find that the working class has abandoned them. (November 6, 2024)

 

 

Missouri, a conservative state, raised the minimum wage to $15/hr. Nebraska, a conservative state, passed paid sick leave. Arizona, a conservative state, enshrined abortion access in its constitution. People across the political spectrum support these popular policies. (November 14, 2024)

 

 

Why don't we discuss the fact that Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos & Larry Ellison own more wealth than the bottom HALF of Americans? Part of the answer is that the people who own the media are doing phenomenally well. They aren't interested in highlighting massive levels of inequality. (November 14, 2024)

 

 

The stress of being poor in this country wrecks your body and your mind. (November 15, 2024)

 

 

Both political parties in America are dominated by billionaires and corporate money. Real change in this country will come about when an organized working class leads the fight for justice. We need working class candidates to help us do that. (November 26, 2024)

 

 

How come we don't talk about class in America? Because when you talk about class, you risk working people coming together and taking back power from the top 1% of our society. (November 27, 2024)

 

 

We don't need more people on Wall Street engaged in high speed trading. We need construction workers. Doctors. Teachers. Childcare workers. (November 29, 2024)

 

 

Billionaires in the U.S. are .0005% of the population, yet accounted for 18% of 2024 electoral spending. Just 150 billionaire families spent nearly $2 billion. This is not democracy. It is oligarchy. Time to overturn Citizens United and move to public funding of elections. (November 29, 2024)

 

 

The top 1% of Americans have taken $50 trillion dollars from the bottom 90% in the last 50 years. And you wonder why people in this country are angry? (December 3, 2024)

 

 

Trump has suggested that Canada become the 51st state in our union. Does that mean that we can adopt the Canadian health care system and guarantee health care to all, lower the cost of prescription drugs, and spend 50% less per capita on health care? I'm all for it. (December 3, 2024)

 

 

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: The priorities of the national government are totally absurd. More and more money for war, less and less for human needs. It’s time to invest in health care, jobs and housing – not more weapons of destruction. (December 5, 2024)

 

 

A small number of billionaires own and control our economy. Increasingly, they own and control our government through a corrupt campaign finance system. This is not democracy. This is oligarchy. We must overturn Citizens United and move to public funding of elections. (December 7, 2024)

 

 

We need to change our national priorities. Instead of pouring endless billions into a wasteful and corrupt Military-Industrial Complex, we should be investing in health care, education and the needs of working families. I will be voting NO on the bloated military budget. (December 8, 2024)

 

 

Politicians cannot vote their conscience when they know that if they defy billionaire-funded Super PACs, millions will be spent against them at the polls. We must get Big Money out of our electoral process. (December 10, 2024)

 

 

Americans need to know that somebody is standing up and fighting for them. (December 12, 2024)

 

 

To Amazon, long-term pain and disability is just the cost of doing business. (December 14, 2024)

 

 

The US Congress this week came to an agreement to fund our government. Elon Musk, who became $200 BILLION richer since Trump was elected, objected. Are Republicans beholden to the American people? Or President Musk? This is oligarchy at work. (December 18, 2024)

 

 

Today we have: More income & wealth inequality than ever before. More concentration of ownership than ever before. More billionaire control of the political process than ever before. Our job: fight back & create an economy and government that works for all, not just the few. (December 23, 2024)

 

 

Ask the American people: is health care a human right? The vast majority will say yes. (December 26, 2024)

 

 

On the campaign trail, Donald Trump stood up and said he would cap credit card interest rates at 10%. I sincerely hope that Trump keeps his word. (December 31, 2024)