Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is planning to offer his own response to President Trump’s border security speech on Tuesday night.
Sanders, one of several lawmakers mulling a potential 2020 White House bid, will make his speech after Trump’s address and the formal Democratic response, according to a release from Sanders’s office.
His office didn’t hint at what Sanders would say during his speech, which will be shared live on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.{mosads}
The remarks from Sanders, an Independent who caucuses with Senate Democrats, will be separate from the response to Trump from Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), which is expected to be carried on most major networks.
It’s not the first time Sanders has given his own response to Trump’s major speeches.
The Vermont senator used a January 2018 speech to knock Trump as “compulsively dishonest” and a “bully” during his response to the State of the Union address. At the time, Rep. Joe Kennedy III (D-Mass.) gave the formal Democratic response.
Sanders also gave his own response after Trump’s address to Congress in 2017, urging his supporters to “continue the fight” and publicly push back against the administration.