Secretary Price Continues to Peddle Falsehoods about Medicaid, Trumpcare, and the President’s Budget
Washington, D.C. – Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Tom Price yesterday testified before the Senate Finance Committee to defend the drastic cuts in the President’s Budget and harmful changes in the American Health Care Act, or Trumpcare, repeatedly attempting to mislead members of the committee and at times outright lying about the […]
Wyden Statement at Finance Committee Hearing on HHS Budget
This administration, from day one, has preferred “alternative facts” and convenient spin to the truth. One of the most recent examples was its budget proposal, which double-counted two trillion dollars to maintain some whiff of fiscal responsibility while it slashed health programs and protections for basic living standards. The budget math is fake, but the […]
Wyden Statement at Finance Committee Hearing on Treasury, HHS Nominees
This morning the Finance Committee will consider four nominations: Mr. Eric Hargan to be deputy secretary of the Health and Human Services Department. Mr. David Malpass to be undersecretary for international affairs at the Treasury Department. Mr. Drew Maloney to be deputy undersecretary of the Treasury Department for legislative affairs. And Mr. […]
Wyden Statement at Finance Committee Hearing on the Trump Tax Plan and Fiscal Year 2018 Budget
As Prepared for Delivery What the American people demand of us is bipartisan cooperation on taxes, health care, and the many other issues that affect their daily lives. Yet what the new administration has offered is a one-page tax cut proposal that’s shorter than the typical drug store receipt and a budget that looks […]
Hoeven, Wyden Reintroduce Move America Act
WASHINGTON – Senator John Hoeven (R-N.D.) and Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) today reintroduced the Move America Act, legislation that will bring billions of dollars of investment to state and local governments to help grow and repair America’s aging infrastructure. Move America expands tax-exempt private activity bonds and creates a new infrastructure […]
Wyden: Trump’s Budget is an Unprecedented Attack on Workers and Their Families
Washington, D.C. – Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today issued a statement following the release of the administration’s fiscal year 2018 budget. “This is the budget you write if you think working families have it too easy,” Wyden said. “Trump’s first budget slashes Medicaid by over $600 billion beyond the damage done by […]
Senate, House Committee Leaders Call on Verma to Explain Offer of Backroom Deal with Insurance Companies
Washington, D.C. – The Ranking Members of four congressional committees today sent a letter to Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Seema Verma demanding an explanation of recent reports that she sought political support from insurance companies for the American Health Care Act, also known as Trumpcare, by offering a quid pro quo […]
Senators Wyden and Markey Applaud Inclusion of Innovative Home-based Primary Care Medicare Program in CHRONIC Care Package
Washington – Today, Senators Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) applauded Senate Finance Committee passage of a comprehensive chronic care package that included a two-year extension and expansion of the Independence At Home (IAH) Program, an innovative home-based primary care program that brings measurable, high-quality care to patients suffering from multiple debilitating diseases […]
Wyden Statement on NAFTA Renegotiation Notice
WASHINGTON – Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., issues the following statement in response to the administration’s notice that it intends to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA): “The notification sent up today is the first step toward renegotiating NAFTA. On an initial read, the notification is disappointingly vague in […]
Wyden Statement at Finance Committee Markup of the CHRONIC Care Act
There are just a few brief remarks I want to make, first on policy and second on all the bipartisan work that’s brought us here today. It’s my judgement that the Finance Committee has no job more significant than updating the Medicare guarantee, and that’s exactly what today’s markup is all about. The CHRONIC Care […]