Wyden: Trump’s Health Care Record is an Agenda of Discrimination
A year ago, the president stormed into office promising better, cheaper health care for everybody. And he said he’d bring prescription drug prices down because, in his words, drug companies were, “getting away with murder.” Let’s take stock after year number one. The Trump record on health care is worse than your garden variety case […]
Wyden: Alex Azar is the Wrong Choice to Fix the Trump Administration’s Disastrous Record on Health Care
Very shortly the Senate is going to take two votes on Trump nominees. The first is to confirm Jerome Powell as the next Fed Chair. Once that vote wraps up, the Senate will vote on whether to begin debate on the nomination of Alex Azar to be secretary of Health and Human Services — one […]
Wyden Statement on Solar Trade Decision
Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee, released the following statement today on the Trump Administration’s announcement of tariffs on imported solar panels and cells. “I’ll be closely studying this decision to see if it will be sufficient to level the playing field for American solar manufacturers against the flood of […]
Wyden Statement on This Week’s Trump Administration Rollbacks at HHS
Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today released the following statement after the Trump administration this week announced it will encourage health care workers to deny services to women and LGBTQ individuals and overturn guidance on longstanding protections under Medicaid’s family planning freedom of choice provision that ensures states cannot arbitrarily defund essential […]
Wyden Blasts Republican Exploitation of Children’s Health Insurance Program
Washington – Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., delivered remarks on the Senate floor today regarding the needed extension of the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), which congressional Republicans are using as a political pawn to force a vote on yet another continuing resolution. “I want to be very clear about what’s happening […]
Wyden, Senate Democrats Question Trump Administration Medicaid Waiver Authority
Washington, D.C. – 29 Senate Democrats, led by Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., sent a letter to Acting Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Eric Hargan expressing serious concern with recent administrative actions and calling into question the Trump Administration’s authority to approve state Medicaid waivers that violate the statutory intent of […]
Finance Committee Democrats Call On President to End Trade Secrecy
Washington, D.C. –Senator Ron Wyden, D-Ore., Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, and nine other Finance Committee Democrats urged the president today to direct agency heads responsible for trade policy to follow transparency rules in trade negotiations and release trade reports to the public. Senators Ben Cardin, D-Md., Bob Casey, D-Pa., Maria Cantwell, D-Wa., […]
Wyden Statement on Release of 2018 Withholding Tables
Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today issued the following statement regarding the IRS’ release of their 2018 withholding tables: “Republicans are using brute force and speed to implement a law that will deliver a financial blow to hardworking Americans all across the country,” Wyden said. “I look forward to GAO’s independent review […]
Wyden Statement on CMS Announcement of Medicaid Waiver Changes
Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today issued a statement following an announcement from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) regarding the agency’s openness to approving state Medicaid waivers that would put up new barriers to enrolling in the program: “The vast majority of Americans in Medicaid either already have a […]
Wyden Statement at Finance Committee Hearing on the Nomination of Alex Azar to Lead HHS
The same Donald Trump who said almost exactly one year ago that price-hiking drug companies were “getting away with murder” has nominated a drug company executive with a documented history of raising prescription drug prices to captain the administration’s health care team. Mr. Alex Azar is here with the Finance Committee today, nominated to serve […]