{"id":85575,"date":"2026-07-08T12:21:38","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T16:21:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=85575"},"modified":"2026-07-08T13:36:29","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T17:36:29","slug":"bernie-sanders-rips-microsoft-for-xbox-layoffs-and-price-hikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=85575","title":{"rendered":"Bernie Sanders Rips Microsoft For Xbox Layoffs And Price Hikes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Microsoft recently announced <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/xbox-layoffs-studio-closures-and-spin-offs-everything-announced-today\/\" id=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/xbox-layoffs-studio-closures-and-spin-offs-everything-announced-today\/\">mass layoffs affecting 4,800 people<\/a>, including 3,200 at Xbox, and now US Senator Bernie Sanders (D-VT) has ripped the technology giant for cutting staff at a time when it&#8217;s making massive profits. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SenSanders\/status\/2074202502996582817\" id=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SenSanders\/status\/2074202502996582817\">Posting on social media<\/a>, Sanders pointed out how Microsoft made more than $100 billion in profit in 2025, with CEO Satya Nadella getting paid $96 million. He also called out how US President Donald Trump&#8217;s new tax plan would save Microsoft $12.5 billion. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Please don\u2019t tell me corporate tax breaks create jobs. It never trickles down,&#8221; he said, calling out the Xbox layoffs and the Xbox console price hikes. The latest Xbox console price hike brings the Series X up to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/microsoft-is-increasing-the-cost-of-xbox-consoles-again-starting-in-august\/\" id=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/microsoft-is-increasing-the-cost-of-xbox-consoles-again-starting-in-august\/\">whopping $800<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>  https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenSanders\/status\/2074202502996582817  <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/news.microsoft.com\/source\/2025\/07\/30\/microsoft-cloud-and-ai-strength-fuels-fourth-quarter-results\/\" id=\"https:\/\/news.microsoft.com\/source\/2025\/07\/30\/microsoft-cloud-and-ai-strength-fuels-fourth-quarter-results\/\">For the fiscal year that Sanders is referring to<\/a>, Microsoft made $101.8 billion in profit (up 16%) on revenue of $281.7 billion (up 15%). Microsoft overall may have done well financially during the year, but Xbox was in a rougher spot, if commentary from Xbox CEO Asha Sharma is to be believed. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She has said the Xbox business is &#8220;not healthy&#8221; and that a variety of bets made by previous leaders Phil Spencer and Sarah<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft recently announced mass layoffs affecting 4,800 people, including 3,200 at Xbox, and now US Senator Bernie Sanders (D-VT) has ripped the technology giant for cutting staff at a time when it&#8217;s making massive profits. Posting on social media, Sanders pointed out how Microsoft made more than $100 billion in profit in 2025, with CEO&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":85577,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85575"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=85575"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85578,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85575\/revisions\/85578"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/85577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}