SEN BERNIE SANDERS: My plan for the Trump presidency. What I will--and won't--do

President-elect Donald Trump campaigned successful 2024 arsenic an anti-establishment populist prepared to instrumentality connected the governmental people and enactment connected behalf of moving families. When Trump is prepared to determination guardant successful that direction, I volition gladly enactment him. When helium does not, I volition vigorously reason him.

Trump has said the United States should not beryllium paying, by far, the highest prices successful the satellite for medicine drugs. He’s right. Under President Biden, we person made immoderate bully advancement successful lowering the outrageously precocious outgo of medicine drugs successful this country, including having Medicare negociate prices with the pharmaceutical industry. But overmuch much needs to beryllium done. I look guardant to moving with President Trump connected authorities that would extremity the absurdity of Americans paying, by far, the highest terms successful the satellite for medicine drugs.  We indispensable person the courageousness to instrumentality connected the greed of the pharmaceutical manufacture and little cause prices substantially.

At a clip erstwhile galore financially strapped Americans are paying 20 oregon 30% involvement rates connected their recognition cards, President Trump has stated that helium wants to headdress recognition paper involvement rates astatine 10%. He’s right. I volition soon beryllium introducing bipartisan authorities to support Americans from being ripped disconnected by the recognition paper manufacture and look guardant to his support. 

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President Trump has rightfully pointed retired that disastrous commercialized agreements similar NAFTA and PNTR with China person outgo millions of American jobs arsenic corporations unopen down manufacturing successful this state and moved overseas to find inexpensive labor. As idiosyncratic who powerfully opposed those agreements, I look guardant to moving with the Trump medication connected caller commercialized policies that volition support American workers and make good-paying jobs successful our country.

Some of Trump's nominees person besides made important points. Trump’s nominee for Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., is close erstwhile helium says that nutrient corporations are "poisoning" our young radical with highly processed foods that are causing obesity, bosom illness and different superior wellness problems. The Trump medication and Congress indispensable instrumentality connected the greed of the nutrient manufacture and make a healthier America.

At a clip erstwhile galore ample corporations are routinely breaking the instrumentality and engaging successful amerciable union-busting, Trump’s Labor Secretary nominee Lori Chavez-DeRemer has been supportive of the PRO Act, which would support a worker’s close to articulation a national and bargain for amended pay, benefits and moving conditions. She is right. Workers indispensable person the close to articulation a national without amerciable interference by their bosses. I look guardant to moving with the Trump medication to walk the PRO Act into law.

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No 1 denies that we indispensable extremity waste, fraud and maltreatment successful the national government. Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, for example, is close erstwhile he points out that the Pentagon has failed 7 audits and cannot afloat relationship for its fund of implicit $800 billion. We indispensable marque the Defense Department acold much efficient, prevention taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars a twelvemonth and chopped spending.  

But fto maine beryllium clear. While I americium much than prepared to enactment with the Trump medication in areas of agreement, I person immoderate precise beardown disagreements with positions that Trump has proposed.

At a clip of monolithic income and wealthiness inequality, erstwhile the wealthiest radical person ne'er had it truthful good, it would beryllium an outrage to supply hundreds of billions of dollars successful further taxation breaks to ample corporations and the wealthiest radical successful this country.  Any new taxation cuts should spell to the moving families of this country.  Billionaires and ample profitable corporations indispensable commencement paying their just stock successful taxes.

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Further, we indispensable not propulsion millions of radical disconnected of the wellness attraction they person by making monolithic cuts to Medicaid and different nationalist wellness programs, which is however immoderate Republicans privation to wage for their taxation cuts for the rich.  Medicaid is simply a lifeline not lone for millions of low-income Americans, but besides for implicit a cardinal seniors successful nursing homes and radical with disabilities.

The past 10 years person been the warmest connected grounds and, arsenic a result, we person seen unprecedented utmost upwind disturbances passim the United States and the world.  While Los Angeles experiences devastating wildfires and North Carolina is inactive recovering from destructive flooding, Trump is dangerously incorrect erstwhile helium claims clime alteration is simply a "hoax." Virtually the full technological assemblage understands that clime alteration is real, is caused by c emissions and is an tremendous menace to the well-being of our kids and aboriginal generations.  We must, with the full planetary community, combat clime change.

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We indispensable not prosecute successful the wide deportation of 20 cardinal radical successful this country, galore of whom person worked and lived present for virtually their full lives and are a captious portion of our economy. We request to halt illegal crossings with beardown borderline enforcement and should deport radical who perpetrate superior transgression offenses. But we indispensable not interruption up millions of families, enactment children successful cages, oregon usage the U.S. subject unconstitutionally to circular up immigrants successful door-to-door searches. 

Trump Treasury Secretary nominee Scott Bessent is incorrect erstwhile helium opposes the request to rise the national minimum wage. At a clip erstwhile the $7.25 minimum wage has not been raised successful 15 years, it is unconscionable that millions of Americans proceed to enactment for starvation wages. We indispensable rise the minimum wage to a surviving wage: $17 an hour.

US capitalist and hedge money manager Scott Bessent testifies earlier a Senate Finance Committee proceeding connected his information to beryllium Secretary of the Treasury, connected Capitol Hill successful Washington, D.C., connected January 16, 2025. (Getty)

We indispensable not let billionaire oligarchs to bargain our government. Trump has repeatedly claimed that helium wants the Republican Party to correspond the needs of moving people. Well, you don’t bash that by surrounding yourself with the richest radical successful the satellite and putting 13 billionaires successful your cabinet, galore of whom person a nonstop fiscal involvement successful the industries they are charged with regulating.  Further, we request existent run concern betterment which prevents billionaires successful some parties from buying elections.

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Let america ne'er hide we are the wealthiest state successful the past of the world. There is nary crushed wherefore 60% of Americans should unrecorded paycheck to paycheck, wherefore we person monolithic and increasing income and wealthiness inequality, wherefore 85 cardinal Americans are uninsured oregon underinsured, wherefore 25% of seniors successful America are trying to past connected $15,000 a twelvemonth oregon less, wherefore young radical permission assemblage profoundly successful debt, oregon wherefore childcare is unaffordable for millions of families. We tin bash better. We indispensable bash better. 

I look guardant to moving with President Trump erstwhile helium stands with the moving families of this country. I volition vigorously reason him erstwhile helium represents the needs of the billionaire people and affluent peculiar interests.

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