Wyden, Neal Question Political Manipulation at IRS, Seek to Prevent Hardworking Americans from Getting Hit with Massive Tax Bill
Washington, D.C. – Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and House Ways and Means Ranking Member Rep. Richard Neal, D-Mass., today questioned whether the Trump administration is wrongfully pressuring the IRS to produce 2018 withholding tables that would result in systematic underwithholding of federal taxes from taxpayer earnings. In a letter to […]
Wyden Statement on Association Health Plan Proposed Rule
Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today released the following statement after the Trump administration announced a proposed rule that would ease access to association health plans, which do not have the same consumer protections as marketplace plans: “The Trump administration has declared open season for fraudsters selling junk insurance while those with […]
Wyden Statement on Chairman Hatch’s Retirement
Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today issued the following statement regarding the retirement of Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch, R-Utah: “Senator Hatch has been not only a colleague but a friend who has served the people of Utah with great passion and dedication. This basketball player from Oregon can tell […]
Hatch, Wyden Statement on CHIP
WASHINGTON — Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) today issued the following statement about reauthorizing the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP). “We share a commitment to extend full funding for CHIP as soon as possible,” Hatch and Wyden said in a joint statement. “In our view, a long-term, […]
Wyden Probes Conflicts of Interest, Political Interference at IRS
Washington, D.C. – Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today questioned Acting IRS Commissioner and Assistant Secretary for Tax Policy David Kautter about his role as both a politically appointed head of tax policy and the traditionally non-partisan head of tax administration for the Treasury Department. In a letter to Mr. Kautter, Wyden […]
Wyden Statement on Republican Tax Deal
Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today released the following statement on the Senate and House Republican tax deal: “Americans are learning how many tax promises Republicans are willing to break, how many cons they’re willing to run, how many hardworking families they’re willing to betray to guarantee handouts to powerful CEOs and […]
Wyden Statement at Conference Committee on Republican Tax Plan
The American people are witnessing a masterclass in how one political party, relying on secrecy, distortion and brute force, can muscle an unpopular, deficit-exploding corporate giveaway to passage. This is the ultimate betrayal of the middle class. It does not give middle class Americans the tax cuts they deserve now, and it takes away Medicare […]
Wyden and Murray Call for Extended Open Enrollment Period
Washington, D.C. – Senators Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Patty Murray, D-Wash., today sent a letter to Acting Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Eric Hargan and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Seema Verma urging the Trump Administration to extend open enrollment for the individual insurance market from December […]
Wyden Statement on Unanimous Win for U.S. Mills in ITC Softwood Lumber Vote
WASHINGTON – Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today praised the International Trade Commission’s 4-0 vote confirming that dumped and subsidized Canadian softwood lumber is harming American workers. “Imports of underpriced, subsidized Canadian softwood lumber have hurt American mills, millworkers and rural communities in Oregon and across the country. With today’s unanimous […]
Wyden Statement on Being Named to Conference Committee on Republican Tax Plan
Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today issued the following statement after being named to the conference committee on the Republican tax plan: “The Republican track record shows that this will be a conference in name only while the real tax plan details are hammered out in secret without any Democratic input,” said […]