Sanders, Bernard
Senate · Vermont · Rank #34 of 554
Employee Performance Review
Budget influence review.
Sanders, Bernard is a public employee. This review tracks the federal budget this office backed instead of pretending congressional votes are just vibes. At 929 dollars per patient, the military dollars this office backed could have funded pragmatic trials for about 923.6M patients.
Military $ Backed
$858B
Bills this office backed that expand military spending
Clinical Trials $
$2B
Bills this office backed that include clinical trial funding
Military : Medicine
547:1
Higher means more military than medicine
Clinical trial spending minus military spending. Everyone is negative.
3.3% of the NIH budget actually tests which medicines work
System average: 1,094:1
Spending Scale (vs All Politicians)
Scaled to the same axis as military spending — the bar is barely visible because clinical trials get 0.18% of the funding
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Vote Record
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How We Calculate
NDAA and supplementals count at face value. Omnibus bills count only the military appropriation (~$858–886B/yr).
Only 3.3% of the NIH budget funds clinical trials ($1.56B of $47.3B). The other 96.7% is basic research, overhead, and administration. Source: JAMA.
Positive = net investment in medicine. Negative = net investment in military. Everyone is negative.
Higher = worse. ∞ means the politician voted for military spending but never voted for any bill containing clinical trial funding.
The Maths
Sanders, Bernard spent $547 on blowing stuff up for every $1 finding out which medicines work. Your species average is 1,094:1. Your chance of dying from terrorism: 1 in 30 million. Your chance of dying from disease: 100%.
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