Sanders: 'These are the scariest times in my life'

[Uncle Joe]

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) heads into a press conference on March 6, 2025, to discuss an executive order from President Trump to abolish the Department of Education.

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“It is not just they want to give tax breaks to billionaires and cut programs for working people. Frankly, that’s happened before,” Sanders said of powerful conservatives in America during an interview with Jon Lovett on “Pod Save America.”

“You combine that with the power of the oligarchy in general, you combine that with Mr. Musk owning Twitter and able to send out his messages to hundreds of millions of people,” Sanders said, ticking off what he sees as the biggest threats to progressivism and economic justice in the United States.

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“When Trump unilaterally cuts federal funding that was passed by Congress, that is illegal, that is unconstitutional,” he said.

“When you have the vice president saying, well, in his judgment the courts don’t have the right to stop unconstitutional acts of the president, man, that is authoritarianism,” he argued. “He is now trying to end what the Founding Fathers was pretty smart about, creating a form of government where there were checks and balances.

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https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5190322-berniesanders-elonmusk-threats/