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Featuring: Bernie Sanders, Independent | U.S. Senate, Vermont

Mr. President: Do Not Shut Down the Government | Sen. Bernie Sanders

Published September 30, 2025 | Video Starts at 17:17

I don't know how to phrase it here, but Trump has given a trillion dollars in tax breaks to the the top 1%. He's going to raise health insurance premiums by 75% on average for 20 million families, Throwing thousands of people, millions of people off of Medicaid. And by the way, as I said earlier, studies out there show that tens of thousands of Americans every single year are going to die as a result. (17:17–17:23)

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Asserts that millions of people will lose Medicaid coverage.

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“Under [Trump's] bill, 15 million people on Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act will be thrown off of health care.”
Mr. President: Do Not Shut Down the Government | Sen. Bernie Sanders | Uploaded September 30, 2025 | 01:04-02:29
“Up to 50,000 Americans a year will die because they are no longer able to go to the doctor.”
Mr. President: Do Not Shut Down the Government | Sen. Bernie Sanders | Uploaded September 30, 2025 | 02:29-02:42
“He's going to raise health insurance premiums by 75% on average for 20 million families.”
Mr. President: Do Not Shut Down the Government | Sen. Bernie Sanders | Uploaded September 30, 2025 | 17:10-17:18
“A trillion dollars in tax breaks to the richest people, 1%.”
Mr. President: Do Not Shut Down the Government | Sen. Bernie Sanders | Uploaded September 30, 2025 | 29:27-29:31
“It is very likely that the United States government is going to shut down.”
Mr. President: Do Not Shut Down the Government | Sen. Bernie Sanders | Uploaded September 30, 2025 | 00:29-00:35
“In order to pass a budget, which is what we're considering right now, you need 60 votes.”
Mr. President: Do Not Shut Down the Government | Sen. Bernie Sanders | Uploaded September 30, 2025 | 00:48-00:54
“Republicans, as everybody knows, controls the US Senate, controls the US House, and controls the White House.”
Mr. President: Do Not Shut Down the Government | Sen. Bernie Sanders | Uploaded September 30, 2025 | 01:21-01:29
“Democrats have had no input into the process at all.”
Mr. President: Do Not Shut Down the Government | Sen. Bernie Sanders | Uploaded September 30, 2025 | 01:45-01:50
“Your insurance premiums are going up by, on average, some more, some less, 75%.”
Mr. President: Do Not Shut Down the Government | Sen. Bernie Sanders | Uploaded September 30, 2025 | 02:42-02:55
“You got a HHS Health and Human Services Secretary now who's trying to undermine vaccine protocol.”
Mr. President: Do Not Shut Down the Government | Sen. Bernie Sanders | Uploaded September 30, 2025 | 03:13-03:21
“There is a massive move in this country to authoritarianism.”
Mr. President: Do Not Shut Down the Government | Sen. Bernie Sanders | Uploaded September 30, 2025 | 03:25-03:30
“You have a president who doesn't believe in the Constitution, doesn't believe in the rule of law, lies all of the time.”
Mr. President: Do Not Shut Down the Government | Sen. Bernie Sanders | Uploaded September 30, 2025 | 03:32-03:39
“Studies out there show that tens of thousands of Americans every single year are going to die as a result [of these policies].”
Mr. President: Do Not Shut Down the Government | Sen. Bernie Sanders | Uploaded September 30, 2025 | 17:22-17:32
“The system is already broken.”
Mr. President: Do Not Shut Down the Government | Sen. Bernie Sanders | Uploaded September 30, 2025 | 27:55-27:59
“We did the ranking member of the health committee, Health, education, labor, and we looked at nursing homes.”
Mr. President: Do Not Shut Down the Government | Sen. Bernie Sanders | Uploaded September 30, 2025 | 27:59-28:06
“You pay for that [tax breaks] by cutting Medicaid and making it harder for people to pay for the Affordable Care Act.”
Mr. President: Do Not Shut Down the Government | Sen. Bernie Sanders | Uploaded September 30, 2025 | 29:33-29:41