Bernie Sanders blames ‘megalomaniac’ Trump for shutdown and predicts mass death
October 3, 2025 | Mariane Angela
Independent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders appeared on MSNBC Thursday and accused President Donald Trump of engineering the current government shutdown to consolidate power.
Lawmakers triggered a federal government shutdown at midnight Wednesday after the Senate fell short of the 60 votes needed to advance a House-passed stopgap funding bill in a 55–45 vote. During an interview on “All In With Chris Hayes,” Sanders slammed what he said was Trump’s role in the ongoing impasse, calling him a “megalomaniac” driven by personal ambition and surrounded by “oligarchic friends.”
“Well, you’ve got a president who is acting in an unprecedented way — who is a megalomaniac, who wants more and more power for himself and his oligarchic friends,” Sanders said. “And I want everybody to understand that, at least for me — and I think for many others in Congress — one of the key aspects of this whole shutdown debate is the Senate rules.”
Sanders accused Republicans of abandoning decades of precedent in the Senate by refusing to negotiate on a government funding deal.
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