Wyden Statement at Finance Committee Hearing on the Trump Administration’s FY 2021 Budget with HHS Secretary Alex Azar
Trump’s health care agenda rips scores of new holes in the safety net that vulnerable Americans are sure to fall through. The textbook example is Medicaid. Right now, the administration is attempting to do on its own what it failed to through the Congress: block grant the Medicaid program. It’s a policy the Finance Committee […]
Finance Democrats Denounce Trump Admin For Harmful Medicaid Block Grant Proposals
Washington, D.C. – Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and all Democratic members of the Finance Committee today called on the Trump administration to end its harmful attacks on the Medicaid program, which provides essential health care to more than 70 million Americans. The letter comes ahead of the committee’s hearing on the […]
Wyden Statement at Finance Committee Hearing on the Trump Administration’s FY 2021 Budget with Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin
This administration’s budget is built on policies that pillage working families to pay for brand new windfalls for corporations and the wealthy. That harmful agenda has been on clear display over the last few weeks in two events I want to address. First, it recently came to light that the Trump administration – acting on […]
Wyden, Brown Introduce Bill to Block Latest Trump Administration Corporate Giveaway
Washington, D.C. – Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Senator Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, today introduced legislation to block the Treasury Department’s latest corporate giveaway—an exception to the new tax on foreign earnings that allows multinationals to essentially choose the lowest available tax rate. The Congressional Budget Office recently estimated that the 2017 […]
Wyden Requests State Department Documents on Trump-Era Ukraine Activities
Washington, D.C. – Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today requested documents from the State Department on the full scope of the Department’s policy in Ukraine, including the firing of former Ukrainian Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin, any effort to leverage trade negotiations with China to obtain dirt on Hunter Biden and the activities […]
Democrats Request Action On Energy Tax Policy
Washington, D.C. – To help address the growing threat of climate change, Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today led 27 Democratic senators in requesting Senate Finance Committee Chairman Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, take action on languishing energy tax policy priorities. The letter is signed by Senators Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., Maria […]
Wyden Statement on Trump Budget Slashing Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security
Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, today released the following statement on the Trump budget: “For a president who makes himself out to be a champion of typical working Americans, Donald Trump has run the same old Republican playbook of giving tax handouts to the wealthy and slashing the safety net that supports everybody […]
Wyden Statement on Inspector General Free File Report
Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today released the following statement in reaction to the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) report on the Free File program: “The TIGTA report confirms recent reporting—the Free File program is a mess. The IRS has done a poor job promoting the program, which is why […]
Wyden Statement at Finance Committee Hearing on SSA, HHS and Treasury Nominees
This morning the Finance Committee meets to consider three nominations: Jason Fichtner is nominated to serve on the Social Security Advisory Board, Sarah Arbes is nominated to serve as HHS Assistant Secretary for Legislation and Kipp Kranbuhl is nominated to serve as Assistant Treasury Secretary for Financial Markets. I’ll have just a few brief remarks […]
Grassley and Wyden Tout Benefits for Insulin Users in Prescription Drug Bill
Chairman and Ranking Member Update Public on Investigation to Spotlight Broken System that Drives High Insulin Prices at the Expense of Patients Washington, D.C. – Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today described how the committee’s prescription drug pricing reform bill, passed by the committee with an overwhelming […]