Wyden, Senate Democrats Expose Shortfalls and Stonewalling Among For-Profit Medicaid Contractors Ahead of Massive Disenrollment Caused By Republican Health Care Cuts
Interim Report Sounds Alarm on Rushed Implementation of Draconian Enrollment and Eligibility Policies; While Taxpayers Fund a Windfall for For-Profit Consulting Firms, Millions Stand to Lose Coverage Amid Error-Prone Systems Text of the Report (PDF) Washington, D.C. – Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Senators Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Raphael Warnock, D-Ga., […]
Wyden Seeks Input on Major Overhaul of Long-Term Care In America
Text of the RFI (PDF) Washington, D.C. – Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today released a comprehensive request for information on a range of policy proposals aimed at improving long-term care for all Americans, including creating an affordable home care guarantee. “Long-term care and the decisions that surround it are among the […]
Wyden, Whitehouse, Warren, Cortez Masto, Hassan, Luján, Welch, Question Meta’s Use of Billions in Research and Development Tax Credits to Subsidize Its AI Data Center Construction Boom
Washington, D.C. – Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., along with Senators Sheldon Whitehouse, R.I., Elizabeth Warren, Mass., Catherine Cortez Masto, Nev., Maggie Hassan, N.H., Ben Ray Luján, N.M., and Peter Welch, Vt., called on Meta to justify its use of billions in federal research and development tax credits to fund its rapid […]
Republican Health Care Cuts are Decimating American Families
Text of the Report (PDF) Washington, D.C. – Senate Finance Committee (Committee) Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and House Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr., D-N.J., today released their latest report spotlighting the consequences of Donald Trump and Republicans’ health care cuts, with a focus on the fallout of the Republican Big […]
Wyden Statement on Trump’s Latest Attempt to Bribe the American Public
Washington, D.C. — Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today issued the following statement after Donald Trump announced he had drained the Medicare Improvement Fund to send a nominal sum to seniors with Medicare Part B. “This year, Trump handed seniors a $200 monthly Medicare premium for the first time ever, and he […]
As Trump Circumvents Anti-Trafficking Office, Wyden Demands Restoration of Direct Reporting
Text of the Letter (PDF) Washington, D.C. – Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today demanded that the Trump administration immediately cancel a new Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) policy that orders care providers to stop reporting suspected instances of human trafficking among unaccompanied minors to an office of experts dedicated […]
Wyden Demands Immediate Release of Epstein Investigation Document Illegally Concealed by Trump’s DOJ and FBI
Washington, D.C. – Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., demanded the Department of Justice (DOJ) immediately hand over any reports documenting interviews from the FBI’s Jeffrey Epstein investigation, after his investigators discovered the FBI conducted an interview with a banker closely tied to Epstein, but failed to release the document recording the interview, […]
Finance Democrats Demand Scott Bessent Pay Back Unpaid Payroll Taxes
During His Confirmation Hearing, Bessent Agreed to Pay Payroll Tax Evaded During His Time as a Hedge Fund Manager Latest Second Circuit Court Ruling is Another Confirmation That Limited Partner Loophole is an Illegal Tax Dodge Text of the Letter (PDF) Washington, D.C. – Senate Finance Committee (Committee) Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., led six […]
Wyden Introduces Bill to Boost Retirement Savings for American Workers
Summary of the Bill (PDF) Text of the Bill (PDF) Washington, D.C. – Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., introduced the Savers Match Enhancement Act, which will increase Americans’ retirement savings by doubling the federal matching of taxpayer contributions to tax-preferred retirement savings accounts such as Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs) and 401(k) programs. […]
Wyden Statement on Trump-Xi Summit
Washington, D.C. — Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today issued the following statement ahead of Donald Trump’s meeting with Xi Jinping, and on the news that the United States and China will extend an agreement to pause new trade hostilities: “In return for China breaking nearly every trade promise it has made, Trump […]