WASHINGTON, Feb. 5 -- Sen. Bernie Sanders issued the following press release:
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), today announced an investigation into how Walmart, Kroger, Dollar General and Dollar Tree stand to benefit from large tax breaks in President Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill," while they force tens of thousands of their employees to rely on Medicaid and SNAP. This situation will be made even worse as a result of the largest cut to Medicaid and nutrition assistance in American history that Republicans enacted last year.
"It has never been acceptable that incredibly profitable companies like Walmart - owned by one of the richest families on Earth - pay...