At a town hall event on Thursday, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) spoke of his disapproval for President Trump’s political ties and international policies.
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00:00Now the way you destroy the government is by laying off hundreds of thousands of employees
00:10and that is precisely what they are doing right now.
00:14I want you all to think about this for a moment.
00:17I know we all feel badly for those federal employees, people who have worked for the
00:22government for years, devoted their lives to public service and you must come along
00:27and say, oh, we've determined your performance is poor, you're out of here, goodbye.
00:34I know a lot of people feel sympathy for those employees, but I want you to think about something.
00:40If Musk and his friends can treat federal employees like that, you work here 20 years,
00:48you're out of here, goodbye.
00:50What do you think that they will be doing to workers in the private sector when artificial
00:56intelligence comes to take your job?
01:01Now technology in itself is not a bad thing.
01:05If it works for working people, not just the people on top.
01:12But it is not just domestic policies of the Trump administration that we've got to fight.
01:22For the first time in our 250-year history, we have a president who is turning his back
01:30on democracy and allying us with authoritarianism and murderers like Vladimir Putin.
01:39No, we must not abandon the people of Ukraine who were invaded, Mr. President.
01:50Ukraine did not start this war, Russia did.
01:56Our country must always stand for democracy, not detaintion.
02:04And no, at a time when Netanyahu is waging a horrific war against the Palestinian people,
02:16our government must not provide another nickel to that murderous government.
02:30My friends, it is no great secret that our government is way out of touch with the needs
02:37of working families.
02:39I don't think anybody would deny it.
02:41You have a two-party system, both parties heavily dominated by big money interests.
02:48So our job in the coming weeks and months is not just to take Trump on in every step
02:56of the way, but it's to do more.
02:58It's to have a vision for where our country should be going.
03:05As the wealthiest nation on Earth.
03:08To begin, it's important to know that we are not going to make the changes we need
03:13so long as we continue to have a corrupt campaign finance system.
03:19It is not democracy when Musk himself can spend $270 million to help elect Trump
03:31and then become the most powerful person in government.
03:37And there are billionaires in the Democratic Party also playing a major role.
03:42Our job is to overturn this horrendous Supreme Court decision on Citizens United
03:49and to move this country to public funding of elections.
03:54One person, one vote, not billionaires buying elections.
03:59No, we should not be giving huge tax breaks to billionaires.
04:10On the contrary, we've got to demand that they start paying their fair share of taxes.
04:16Tax the rich! Tax the rich! Tax the rich!
04:32That sounds pretty good up here.
04:34And while we're at it, we cannot maintain a federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour.
04:45We've got to raise that minimum wage to a living wage at least $17 an hour.
04:51And we, all over this country, workers know that if you want decent wages and benefits
04:59and working conditions, you've got to join a union.
05:03And all over this country, corporations are making it harder and harder for workers to join unions
05:10and that's why we need to pass legislation that I just introduced called the PRO Act
05:15that penalizes any employer that acts illegally when workers are trying to form a union.