{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/newswatch/100217", "October 2", "2017-10-02", "2017", "2017-10", "Independent", "House", "VT", "Bernard Sanders", "S000033", "www.sanders.senate.gov", null, null, "legacy", "October 2\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\tMonday, October 2, 2017\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\tSanders Slams Trump\u2019s Puerto Rico Response\u00a0Sen. Bernie Sanders condemned Donald Trump over his tweets criticising the mayor of hurricane-struck San Juan, saying: \u201cIt\u2019s unspeakable. I don\u2019t know what world Trump is living in.\u201d He went on to say that the President had spent the weekend tweeting from his \u201cfancy golf club,\u201d while the mayor of San Juan was trying to secure food, water, fuel and electricity for her residents,\u00a0CNN,\u00a0MSNBC,\u00a0The Hill,\u00a0The Independent,\u00a0The Wall Street Journal,\u00a0U.S. News & World Report,\u00a0Chicago Tribune,\u00a0Raw Story,\u00a0Alternet,\u00a0AOL,Independent Journal Review,\u00a0\u00a0The Financial Times,\u00a0The Washington Times,\u00a0Newsweek,\u00a0The Week,\u00a0Slate,\u00a0The Associated Press\u00a0and\u00a0Bloomberg\u00a0reported.\u00a0\r\nMulvaney/Sanders Clash on Trump Tax Plan\u00a0White House budget director Mick Mulvaney dismissed critics of the Trump administration's proposed tax overhaul, saying a detailed analysis wouldn't be possible until the full plan is crafted. In response, Sanders said one analysis showed most of the benefits of the tax plan over time would go to the top 1 percent of earners, and blasted Trump for saying the plan would not benefit the wealthiest Americans,\u00a0CNN,\u00a0The Wall Street Journal,\u00a0Vox,\u00a0Politico\u00a0and\u00a0Daily Mail\u00a0reported.\r\nRepublican Tax Proposal\u00a0Sanders appeared on This Week to speak in opposition of the Republican tax plan. Sanders called it the \u201cRobin Hood principle in reverse.\u201d \"He's taking from working families and low-income people and giving to it the super-rich and creating a $1.5 trillion deficit,\u00a0ABC\u00a0reported. Watch\u00a0here.\r\nJane O\u2019Meara Sanders: Bernie Would Have Won\u00a0\"I have very little doubt he would have won, because American people wanted change, and they weren\u2019t willing to vote for the status quo,\" Jane Sanders said in a new interview with The Irish Times. She expressed further disappointment in Hillary Clinton's post-election criticism of her husband,\u00a0The Hill,\u00a0Politico\u00a0and\u00a0Newsmaxreported.\r\nSanders in Atlanta\u00a0Sanders this past Saturday stumped for Vincent Fort, an Atlanta state senator who is modeling his mayoral bid after Sanders\u2019 insurgent presidential campaign. Sanders claims that Fort is\u00a0the only candidate poised to bring his populist insurgency to the heart of the South.\u00a0AJC\u00a0reported.\u00a0\r\nMenendez Trial\u00a0Sanders\u00a0on Sunday said his colleague, Sen. Bob Menendez, deserves \"due process\" when asked whether the New Jersey Democrat should resign if convicted of corruption charges. The New Jersey lawmaker is accused of helping acquire visas for friends in exchange for lavish gifts and campaign contributions in return,\u00a0The Hill\u00a0reported.\u00a0\r\nColumn: The Democratic Party Needs Fresh Faces\u00a0\u201cThe Democratic party appears to be stuck with familiar faces thanks to never building a Democratic bench and putting all their hopes into a 2016 basket that fell spectacularly apart.Since losing the primary last year, Sanders has never faded from the national spotlight,\u201d Lucia Graves wrote for\u00a0The Guardian.\u00a0\r\nColumn: A GOP Health-care Escape Hatch\u00a0\u201cThe promise to repeal and replace ObamaCare was a big one, made by President Trump and Republicans who ran for Congress. Failure to deliver on it is akin to an exercise in political self-immolation. The [new proposal from Sen. Alexander] would significantly undercut the case \u2014 made most prominently by Sanders (I-Vt.) that the only way to fix the system is to have government take it over,\u201d Judd Gregg wrote for\u00a0The Hill.\r\nFact Check: World\u2019s Six Wealthiest People\u00a0During a speech on foreign policy ay Westminster College, Sanders highlighted global wealth inequality and claimed that the six wealthiest people in the world had as much as wealth as the bottom half.\u00a0The Washington Post\u00a0gave him \u201cthree pinocchios\u201d for the statistic calling it \u201cprovocative\u201d but \u201cbasically meaningless.\u201d", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/newswatch/100217"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 2.1411729976534843, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}