Sanders calls out 8 Senate Democrats for 'very, very bad vote' on government funding measure

Sen Bernie Sanders I-Vt criticized the eight Senate Democrats who joined Republicans in voting to advance a continuing resolution during the procedural vote in the U S Senate on Sunday Sanders called the move a very very bad vote in a video posted to his X account Tonight Democrats voted with the Republicans to allow them to go forward on this continuing resolution Sanders reported And to my mind this was a very very bad vote The continuing resolution was originally designed to temporarily fund the federal ruling body and avert a shutdown but according to Sanders it contained provisions or omissions that would raise healthcare premiums set the stage for Medicaid cuts and benefit high-income earners through tax changes FLASHBACK TED CRUZ PREDICTS BALLOONING OBAMACARE SUBSIDIES NOW AT CENTER OF SHUTDOWN FIGHTSanders argued the measure raises healthcare premiums for over million Americans by doubling and in particular cases tripling or quadrupling them He continued People can t afford that when we are already paying the highest prices in the world for healthcare He goes on to say in the video that it paves the way for million people to be thrown off of Medicaid Studies show that will mean various Americans will die every year unnecessarily And all of that was done to give a trillion dollars in tax breaks to the As everybody knows just on Tuesday we had an voting all over this country Sanders revealed And what the balloting established is that the American people desired us to stand up to Trumpism to his war against working-class people to his authoritarianism That is what the American people needed But tonight that is not what happened 'THE PANDEMIC'S OVER' GOP DEM SENATORS SPAR ON CAMERA OVER COSTLY OBAMACARE SUBSIDIESIn Sanders video he frames the procedural vote as not only about keeping the authorities open but as representing a broader framework direction that in his view undermined healthcare protections and working-class interests So we ve got to go forward do the best that we can to ensure and protect working-class people to make sure that the United States not only does not throw people off of healthcare but ends the absurdity of being the only major country on earth that doesn t guarantee healthcare to all people Sanders commented We have a lot of work to do but to be honest with you tonight was not a good night According to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office CBO if the enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies enacted under the American Rescue Plan are allowed to expire millions of Americans could face higher marketplace premiums The CBO s analysis of wellness coverage provisions demonstrated that ending the expanded subsidies would significantly increase out-of-pocket costs for enrollees in ACA marketplaces FORMER MSNBC HOST GRATIFICATION REID SUGGESTS 'ILLEGALS' IS THE NEW 'N-WORD' FOR REPUBLICANSStudies cited by the Senate Committee on Healthcare Coaching Labor and Pensions HELP chaired by Sanders have also estimated that large-scale cuts to Medicaid could lead to tens of thousands of preventable deaths annually In a HELP Committee assessment on Sanders website the committee referenced peer-reviewed research published in Soundness Affairs and The Lancet Society Strength determining that a loss of Medicaid coverage is associated with higher mortality due to decreased access to preventive and crisis care The record is also supported by other documents on the site including findings from a June letter from researchers at the Yale School of Citizens Wellbeing and the University of Pennsylvania s Leonard Davis Institute of Medical Economics which warned that proposed federal healthcare cuts could lead to over preventable deaths annually Sanders comments were published on his official website in multiple of his press releases dating back to March of this year and echo his longstanding opposition to Republican budget proposals he says favor the at the expense of working Americans