“The president has been called the most pro-union president when it comes to [the] working class, right?” Jean-Pierre said. “Pro-union. If you think about unions, we’re talking about the working class, right? And he’s done everything that he could to make sure that we created jobs where you don’t need a college degree, right? Think about the bipartisan infrastructure act.”

Sanders, who often votes with Democrats, released a statement Wednesday on X in response to Vice President Kamala Harris losing the presidential election. He said many people have a lower standard of living than their parents.

“It should come as no great surprise that a Democratic Party which has abandoned working class people would find that the working class has abandoned them,” Sanders said. “While the Democratic leadership defends the status quo, the American people are angry and want change.”

Democratic National Committee Chairman Jaime Harrison defended President Joe Biden and the rest of the Democratic Party against Sanders’s accusations.

Harrison, elected to the position in 2021, called Sanders’s statement “BS” on X.

“This is straight up BS … Biden was the most-pro worker President of my life time- saved Union pensions, created millions of good paying jobs and even marched in a picket line and some of MVP’s plans would have fundamentally transformed the quality of life and closed the racial wealth gap for working people across this country,” Harrison said.

While Biden was known as a pro-union president, the rise in inflation under his leadership frustrated many citizens, with people seeing higher gas and grocery prices than under President-elect Donald Trump’s stewardship.

Biden was also seen by Sanders and other progressive Democrats as being too centrist to enact necessary change.