Wyden, Grassley Release Bill to Crack Down on Big Pharma Games
Washington, D.C. – Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, today introduced a bill to prevent drug makers from manipulating Medicaid to take more profit from misclassified drugs. “Every day, working families struggle to afford medicines like EpiPen while drug manufacturers work the system to profiteer […]
Wyden Statement on Trump Administration Decision to Allow South Carolina Foster Care Providers to Discriminate
Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today issued a statement after Trump’s Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued its decision to grant South Carolina a religious exemption from federal nondiscrimination laws and regulations for Miracle Hill and other federally-funded foster care providers in the state: “The decision by HHS to allow […]
Wyden: CBP Confirms Trump Administration Separated Children Before “Zero Tolerance Policy,” Failed to Track Separations
After pressing U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Commissioner Kevin K. McAleenan on Thursday for a full accounting of the number of migrant children separated from their families at the border, Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., called the response by CBP alarming and insufficient. In a letter to Wyden, McAleenan confirms the […]
Wyden Urges Labor Department to Ensure Federal Employees Working Without Pay are Provided Unemployment Compensation
Washington, D.C. – Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., this week sent a letter to Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta requesting the Department of Labor issue immediate guidance to state workforce agencies to ensure that federal employees who are working without compensation during the Trump shutdown are provided with unemployment compensation. “We are nearing […]
Wyden Statement on the Trump Administration’s Latest Attempt to Sabotage Americans’ Health Care
Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today issued a statement following the release of the proposed National Benefits and Payment Parameters rule for 2019. “Trump’s health care sabotage agenda is defined by higher premiums for families and bureaucratic barriers that make it harder to find health coverage,” Wyden said. “Today’s proposed rule deliberately […]
Wyden Demands Answers from CBP on Alarming HHS OIG Report Showing Thousands More Children Separated at Border
Washington, D.C. – Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today pressed U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Commissioner Kevin K. McAleenan for answers on child separation at the border following the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) report showing that thousands of children were likely separated […]
Wyden and Davis Introduce Legislation to Bring More Americans Into the Workforce, Reduce Barriers to Employment
Washington, D.C. – Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Representative Danny Davis, D-Ill., today introduced the ELEVATE Act to boost job prospects for Americans struggling to find work and help them maintain employment. Despite the low unemployment rate in the United States, millions of workers are being left behind in today’s economy, […]
Democratic Health Leaders Raise Threat of Premium Increases, Coverage Losses Due to Trump Shutdown
Washington, D.C. – Top Democrats from health care committees in the House and Senate today called on the Trump administration to ensure there are no premium increases or coverage losses due to the president’s reckless, unnecessary ongoing shutdown. The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and Treasury Department have been left unfunded by the shutdown and are […]
Wyden Urges Labor Department to Ensure Furloughed Workers Have Access to Unemployment Benefits
WASHINGTON – Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today called on the Department of Labor to ensure state unemployment insurance (UI) programs are responding to the needs of furloughed federal workers facing financial uncertainty as the Trump shutdown continues. Reports indicate that some federal workers are being denied unemployment insurance benefits because some […]
Wyden Urges Treasury, IRS to Protect Taxpayers from Consequences of Trump Shutdown
Washington, D.C. – Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today asked Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin and IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig for details on how the Trump shutdown is impacting taxpayer assistance, cybersecurity practices and IRS operations overall. Treasury and IRS have informed the Senate Finance Committee that a shutdown contingency plan outlining IRS’ […]