Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) on Sunday attacked eight Senate Democrats’ “very, very bad vote” to start reopening the government, saying that the recent elections serve as a mandate for Democrats to stand up to “Trumpism” and the president’s alleged authoritarianism.

Late Sunday night, eight Senate Democrats joined Republicans to advance a continuing resolution (CR), a stop-gap spending bill, to end the weeks-long government shutdown.

The Vermont Democratic socialist called the move a “very, very bad vote” in a post on X.

“Tonight, eight Democrats voted with the Republicans to allow them to go forward on this continuing resolution. And to my mind, this was a very, very bad vote,” Sanders said, as he walked through the halls of Congress.

Sanders claimed that the continuing resolution wou

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