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Bernie Sanders’ anti-Netflix crusade hits the skids after filings expose awkward twist
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Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., used campaign funds to pay for a subscription to Netflix from January to March despite his long-running criticism of the streaming service’s tax practices, Federal Election Commission records show.
Over the years, Sanders has repeatedly criticized Netflix for allegedly not paying its «fair share» of taxes and for raising prices on consumers as its executives grow wealthier. In contrast to these criticisms, the senator’s campaign began paying the streaming service $46.79 a month in January to cover a «subscription.»
«Corporate greed is Netflix doubling its profit last year to a record $5.3 billion, avoiding over $1 billion in taxes [and] blaming a 10.7% price increase on ‘inflation’ squeezing $1.35 billion from its 75 million subscribers while its CEO became $200 million richer in the pandemic,» Sanders wrote in March 2022.
Sanders has also, on multiple occasions, criticized Netflix for paying $0 in federal taxes. Netflix has sharply reduced its federal tax liability for some years by using a variety of corporate tax credits.
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Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., hold a news conference to announce the Artificial Intelligence Data Center Moratorium Act at the U.S. Capitol on March 25, 2026. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc/Getty Images)
«Your $8.99 Netflix subscription is more than the company paid in federal income taxes last year (nothing),» the senator posted to social media in 2019. «We are going to make massive corporations finally pay their fair share.»
Senate campaigns have only released their financial information up to March, meaning that Sanders’ donor-funded Netflix subscription may be ongoing.
Sanders’ campaign did not respond to a request for comment after being reached by Fox News Digital Tuesday morning.
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Sen. Bernie Sanders, an Independent from Vermont and ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, arrives for a confirmation hearing in Washington, D.C., on July 16, 2025. (Valerie Plesch/Bloomberg)
The Vermont senator has faced criticism in the past over his use of campaign funds.
In 2023, Sanders transferred $200,000 in donor cash to the Sanders Institute, a nonprofit organization run by his wife and stepson. Since then, Sanders has continued to semi-regularly use his campaign account to fund his family charity.
«The facts present in this case and the family ties involved certainly raise legitimate concern,» Kendra Arnold, executive director of the Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust, told Fox News Digital at the time. «If the nonprofit and its executive director are truly producing work and actually earning the money, it is not illegal, but it is frowned upon. On the other hand, if nothing or very little is being done to legitimately earn the money, then it is highly likely a serious campaign finance violation has taken place.»
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Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., is seen in the Senate subway on Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2025. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc)
The over $550,000 in donor funds Sanders in donor funds Sanders spent on private jets during his 2025 «Fighting Oligarchy» tour has also fallen under scrutiny.
«You don’t expect a socialist to fly commercial do you?» conservative political communications consultant Matt Gorman said. «There’s no bigger hypocrite than the liberal who chastises us for eating meat and using gas stoves, yet flies in private jets.»
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Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates interviewed Sanders for a segment in his Netflix original series titled «What’s Next? The Future with Bill Gates» in 2024.
The senator’s use of campaign funds to pay for a streaming service is relatively unusual.
Campaign finance records show that only five political committees, including one belonging to Sanders, have made payments to Netflix for expenses described as some form of subscription over the past ten years.
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Zelensky afirmó que la adhesión de Ucrania a la UE es clave para garantizar el futuro de Europa frente a la amenaza rusa
Durante la cumbre entre los líderes de la Unión Europea (UE) del jueves, el presidente de Ucrania, Volodimir Zelensky, afirmó que el futuro del continente está definiéndose a partir de la defensa ucraniana a la invasión rusa y propuso que la mejor garantía de seguridad para el bloque sería otorgar a Kiev una membresía acelerada.
“El futuro de Europa —libre, unida y, por supuesto, en paz— se está decidiendo en nuestra defensa. Eso demuestra lo singular que es nuestra situación”, expresó Zelensky en extractos de su discurso publicados en X.
El mandatario ucraniano comunicó a los Estados miembros que Ucrania busca que la guerra contra Rusia finalice antes del invierno y pidió apoyo para preparar otro periodo frío con misiles de defensa aérea y combustible. “Ucrania se lo merece porque ha pagado más que ningún otro país por su derecho a ser libre, independiente y… europea”, sostuvo.
Durante la misma jornada, ataques aéreos ucranianos alcanzaron objetivos en territorio ruso, incluida una refinería de petróleo en Moscú, en el marco de una campaña de largo alcance que el presidente ucraniano expuso como muestra de la capacidad militar del país durante encuentros con el presidente estadounidense Donald Trump y otros líderes del G7 en Francia.
En su mensaje a los líderes de la UE, Zelensky reconoció que no todos los miembros respaldan una adhesión acelerada. Hungría exigió retirar ese lenguaje de la declaración final del Consejo Europeo tras la cumbre. “El paso más importante en este sentido —sé que no a todos les gusta— podría ser una vía rápida para que Ucrania se adhiera a la UE”, planteó.
Los jefes de Estado y de Gobierno de la UE optaron por moderar las expectativas respecto a una incorporación acelerada de Ucrania al bloque, a pesar del respaldo político y militar reiterado durante la cumbre. En el documento consensuado tras varias horas de debate, los mandatarios señalaron que el proceso de ampliación seguirá sujeto al criterio de méritos concretos y a las reformas implementadas por cada aspirante, lo que aleja la posibilidad de avances inmediatos en la adhesión ucraniana.
El texto final de la cumbre estableció que la continuidad de las negociaciones con Ucrania dependerá del progreso demostrado en las áreas definidas por la Unión Europea y del cumplimiento de reformas verificables, sin fijar un calendario para una eventual aceleración.
Por otra parte, Zelensky insistió, en la cumbre frente a sus pares, en que Ucrania desea terminar la guerra este año y apuesta por una solución diplomática, aunque advirtió sobre las dificultades en la interlocución con Rusia. “Putin es la guerra”, declaró. El presidente ucraniano sostuvo que el país necesitará gas, diésel, equipos energéticos y al menos 300 misiles si el conflicto persiste, y reclamó el desembolso de 6.000 millones de euros del Fondo Europeo para la Paz.
El mandatario pidió a Europa mantenerse firme en las sanciones hacia el Kremlin, avanzar en la confiscación de activos y asegurar la financiación de su país. También alertó a la población ucraniana a prepararse para un posible aumento de ataques rusos. “Por favor, utilicen los refugios, se lo ruego”, solicitó.
Tras un ataque ucraniano con drones a una refinería en Moscú en la mañana del jueves, el ministro de Asuntos Exteriores ruso, Serguéi Lavrov, anunció que Moscú llevará a cabo “ataques masivos y coordinados de forma regular” contra Ucrania.
La presidenta de la Comisión Europea, Ursula von der Leyen, destacó durante la cumbre que las fuerzas ucranianas recuperaron terreno frente a las tropas rusas en varios puntos del frente. Esa dinámica reforzó el respaldo del bloque, pero no modificó la cautela respecto de los tiempos del proceso de adhesión. Zelensky agradeció el apoyo europeo y expresó su deseo de avanzar en la apertura de los capítulos restantes durante el verano, aunque la declaración final no recogió esa urgencia.
(Con información de Reuters)
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Obama knocks Founders at presidential center debut before America’s 250th: ‘Fell terribly short’
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Former President Barack Obama said during the dedication of his presidential center in Chicago on Thursday that America’s Founders fell «terribly short» of the Declaration of Independence’s promise, while casting the nation’s story as one of generations coming together to make the union «more perfect.»
«The success of this experiment was never a given,» Obama said in his speech, referring to the nation’s founding just days before America celebrates its 250th anniversary on the 4th of July.
«In forming our union, the founders fell terribly short of the Declaration’s promise, leaving slavery intact, allowing states to restrict the franchise to white men who owned property. But in drafting a Constitution and a Bill of rights, they did have the foresight, the genius, to provide us with a framework that allows each generation to make our union more perfect.»
The 44th president devoted much of his speech Thursday to outlining the work he believes America still has ahead, echoing themes he has emphasized in past appearances on the campaign trail and during his time in the White House.
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Barack Obama speaks during the dedication of the Barack Obama Presidential Center in Chicago, Illinois. (Kent NISHIMURA / AFP via Getty Images)
While the Obama Presidential Center officially opens to the public Friday, the dedication featured a slew of former diplomats, officials and celebrities, such as former Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau, Oprah Winfrey, Nancy Pelosi, Kamala Harris, Steven Spielberg, Hillary Clinton, and former Presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Joe Biden.
«And over more than two centuries, through petitions and protests, marches and strikes, moral appeals from the pulpit and conversations at the family dinner table – men and women from all walks of life, of every color, every faith, every region took up the cause of democracy and made it their own. Until, we the people, came to include not just some of us, but all of us. And that’s why the story we tell in this building begins not with Michelle’s origins or my origins, but with our nation’s,» he continued.
Obama also used the speech to champion what he described as shared American values and the importance of finding common ground across the political spectrum.
«Every president here today, as different as we are, has tried our best to uphold the values that John McCain and Mitt Romney believed in no less than I did,» said Obama, naming the two Republicans.
«It is our greatest inheritance. The story of America at its best, because it reflects a basic faith in the decency of our fellow citizens and the possibility that, despite all of our differences, we can see each other and understand one another and make common cause together. That’s what I hope every visitor to this center takes away from their experience,» he said.
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Oprah Winfrey arrives at the opening of the Barack Obama Presidential Center in Chicago. (Kamil Krzaczynski / AFP via Getty Images)
The presidential museum features an Oval Office replica, along with America’s founding and civil war artifacts.
Among the historical artifacts featured in the museum are a print of the Declaration of Independence, a pen and ink stand used by Frederick Douglass, Lincoln’s Bible, and a pamphlet by journalist and civil rights activist Ida B. Wells.
The center’s opening Friday follows a decade of planning and construction while facing scrutiny over rising costs, construction delays and public infrastructure spending.
Taxpayers footed hundreds of millions of dollars in public infrastructure costs for Obama’s museum that constructed roads, transit, and utility updates around the campus.
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An aerial view shows the Obama Presidential Center in Jackson Park on Chicago’s South Side. The center includes a museum tower, public gathering spaces, athletic facilities and offices for the Obama Foundation. (Fox News Flight Team)
Overall construction costs were reported to be $830 million in 2021 and have likely climbed past the $1 billion mark.
A recent Fox News Digital investigation identified multiple construction firms claiming losses ranging from hundreds of thousands of dollars to tens of millions.
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