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. FLASHBACK: TED CRUZ PREDICTS BALLOONING OBAMACARE SUBSIDIES NOW AT CENTER OF SHUTDOWN FIGHT 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." 'THE PANDEMIC'S OVER': GOP, DEM SENATORS SPAR ON CAMERA OVER COSTLY OBAMACARE SUBSIDIES 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…