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Sanders calls out 8 Senate Democrats for ‘very, very bad vote’ on government funding measure
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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, 8 Democrats voted with the Republicans to allow them to go forward on this continuing resolution,” Sanders said. “And to my mind, this was a very, very bad vote.”
The continuing resolution was originally designed to temporarily fund the federal government 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.
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Sen. Bernie Sanders speaks during a news conference at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2025. (Daniel Heuer/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Sanders argued the measure “raises healthcare premiums for over 20 million Americans by doubling, and in some 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 15 million people to be thrown off of Medicaid. Studies show that will mean some 50,000 Americans will die every year unnecessarily. And all of that was done to give a trillion dollars in tax breaks to the 1%.”
“As everybody knows, just on Tuesday, we had an election all over this country,” Sanders said. “And what the election showed is that the American people wanted us to stand up to Trumpism — to his war against working-class people, to his authoritarianism. That is what the American people wanted. But tonight, that is not what happened.”
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In Sanders’ video, he frames the procedural vote as not only about keeping the government open, but as representing a broader policy 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 said. “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 2023 analysis of health coverage provisions showed that ending the expanded subsidies would significantly increase out-of-pocket costs for enrollees in ACA marketplaces.
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Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., and Senate Republicans are open to negotiating an extension to expiring Obamacare tax credits, but only after the government reopens. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
Studies cited by the Senate Committee on Health, Education, 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 2023 HELP Committee report on Sanders’ website, the committee referenced peer-reviewed research published in Health Affairs and The Lancet Public Health, determining that a loss of Medicaid coverage is associated with higher mortality due to decreased access to preventive and emergency care.
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The report is also supported by other documents on the site, including findings from a June 2025 letter from researchers at the Yale School of Public Health and the University of Pennsylvania’s Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, which warned that proposed federal healthcare cuts “could lead to over 51,000 preventable deaths annually.”
Sanders’ comments were published on his official website in many of his press releases dating back to March of this year and echo his longstanding opposition to Republican budget proposals he says favor “the 1%” at the expense of working Americans.
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The Justice Department has moved on two fronts to chip away at some of the last traces of its vast investigation into the attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, aligning itself ever more closely with President Trump’s own efforts to whitewash the events of that day.
On Friday evening, just as the holiday weekend was beginning, federal prosecutors in Washington filed motions to formally dismiss the most serious criminal cases stemming from Jan. 6 — those that involved leaders and members of far-right groups who were tried and convicted on charges of seditious conspiracy.
Hours later, one of the Justice Department’s official social media accounts confirmed that the department was scrubbing its online archives of news releases used to publicize the cases filed against Jan. 6 rioters.
The investigation of the riot at the Capitol, which stretched from 2021 to 2025, was the single largest criminal inquiry in the Justice Department’s history, resulting in charges being filed against nearly 1,600 defendants. But ever since Mr. Trump began his second term by granting clemency to all of the defendants, the department has taken steps to unwind almost every aspect of its enormous effort to hold the rioters accountable for disrupting the peaceful transfer of presidential power after the 2020 election.
Senior department officials, including Todd Blanche, the acting attorney general, were, for instance, deeply involved in setting up a $1.8 billion fund this week intended to compensate allies of Mr. Trump who believe they were wronged in the courts by previous Democratic administrations. Many Jan. 6 rioters were elated by the creation of the fund, and have already vowed to file claims seeking payouts.
The motions to dismiss the sedition cases against a dozen members of the far-right groups the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers was another step toward wiping away the vestiges of what had been the most significant criminal proceedings arising from the Capitol attack. While all of the men were pardoned or had their sentences commuted by Mr. Trump, the full dismissal of their charges would represent a further symbolic victory, and would allow the veterans among them to reclaim military benefits that were terminated after their convictions.
The two federal judges who oversaw the trials — Timothy J. Kelly and Amit P. Mehta — will still have to sign off on the department’s request to dismiss the cases outright. In their motions filed in Federal District Court in Washington on Friday, prosecutors said the government had determined that dismissal was in the “interests of justice.” But the judges could push back and ask how justice would actually be served by throwing out the cases.
When Mr. Trump returned to the White House, officials quickly shut down a page on the Justice Department’s website housing a database of all of the Jan. 6 defendants with details about the charges they faced. But news releases sent out informing the public about updates in the cases had lingered on the site — at least until recently.
On Friday afternoon, a reporter for The Washington Post posted a message on social media taking note of the fact that some of the news releases were being quietly removed from the department’s archives — among them, one describing the 74-month prison sentence received by Andrew Taake, who pleaded guilty to attacking the police with bear spray and a metal whip.
A Justice Department social media account quickly posted its own message responding to the reporter and declaring that there was nothing quiet about what the department was doing.
“We are proud to reverse the DOJ’s weaponization under the Biden administration,” the message read. “We will do everything in our power to make whole those who were persecuted for political purposes. This includes stripping DOJ’s website of partisan propaganda.”
Fellow firefighters paid somber tribute at the fire house where Robert “Bobby” Kilduff, who many referred to as “BK,” served for decades with the Boston Fire Department. On Sunday, black bunting was hung in honor of Kilduff, who died Saturday night after falling from the third floor while battling a Dorchester fire.
“He was the heart of this fire house, he is going to be missed sorely. He is irreplaceable,” Lt. Greg Kelly said.
Kilduff’s fellow firefighters were brought to tears as they remembered their friend and brother. They placed his boots on the floor and traced an outline onto the cement following his death.
“Bobby Kilduff is exactly the definition of what you would imagine a true firefighter should be,” Boston firefighter Lector Tavares said.
All of the residents of the Dorchester home where the fire broke out Saturday night made it out safely. A mayday call was issued when Kilduff fell. He was rushed to the hospital but did not survive.
“BK was the quintessential rescue man. Just in the last 48 hours prior to this fire, he was involved in rescuing a girl who was trying to jump off a building,” Lt. Kelly said. “When the mayday came in, I couldn’t imagine it could be BK. He’s usually the one saving people.”
Not only did Kilduff spend decades in the fire service, but he also spent years serving his country in the U.S. Marines.
Kilduff was also part of the Professional Fire Fighters of Massachusetts, hosting training scenarios for elected officials about the dangers firefighters face.
Kilduff leaves behind two adult children. His girlfriend and her two children. The fire remains under investigation at this time.
“He prioritized so much the importance of being a dad. He loved his kids so much,” Capt. Kevin Preston said.
Funeral arrangments have not yet been announced.
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