Wyden and Merkley Call on Oz to Resolve Chaos as States Implement Trumpcare
Despite Republican Efforts to Roll Back Improvements to Medicaid and Medicare, Democrats Used Senate Rules to Preserve More than a Dozen Policies State Medicaid Programs Have Received Minimal Direction from the Trump Administration About How to Implement These Roll Backs or Preserve Remaining Policies, Raising Specter of Confusion, Lost Coverage and Higher Costs for Families […]
Democratic Senators Demand Transparency, Accountability for Massive Rise in National Security Tariffs
Washington, D.C. – Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vt., called out the Trump administration’s unprecedented use of national security tariffs to pursue taxes on cars, appliances and hundreds of other products, in a letter to Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, along with Senators Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., Alex Padilla, D-Calif., […]
Wyden, Schumer, Warren Sound Alarm Over Trump Weaponization of the IRS Against the Free Speech Rights of Trump Opponents
Washington, D.C. – Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), and Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) today demanded answers about the Trump administration’s reported plans to weaponize the IRS criminal-investigative division in an attack on the free speech rights of progressive individuals and groups the president sees as opponents. Joined by all […]
Finance Democrats Call for Halt to Unlawful Nomination of March Bell to be Health Care Inspector General
Text of the Letter (PDF) Washington, D.C. – Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today led every Democratic member of the Finance Committee in a call for Chairman Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, to table consideration of Thomas March Bell’s nomination to be Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) because […]
Wyden, Welch, Cortez Masto Introduce Bill to Block Republicans’ Big Pharma Bailout, Protect Access to Life-Saving Prescription Drugs
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and committee members Senator Peter Welch, D-Vt., and Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nev., today introduced the No Big Blockbuster Bailouts Act (NOBBBA), a bill to reverse Republicans’ policies in the so-called ‘One Big Beautiful Bill Act’ that block Medicare from negotiating the price of blockbuster drugs. The NOBBBA will […]
New CBO Report: Trump’s Big Ugly Bill Includes $8.8 Billion Handout for Pharmaceutical Companies
Washington, D.C. – Today, Democratic Health Committee leaders released a joint statement following a new report from the independent Congressional Budget Office (CBO) on a provision included in President Trump’s Big Ugly Bill that will drive up prescription drug prices for America’s seniors. The following statement was released by Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron […]
With JPMorgan Chase Dodging Epstein Inquiry, Wyden Investigation Drills Down On Bank Executives’ Unexplained Conduct
Washington, D.C. – Responding to an evasive letter from JPMorgan Chase regarding the bank’s relationship with its former client Jeffrey Epstein, Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) refused the bank’s attempt to pin blame for its mistakes on a single former employee and restated more than two dozen questions pertaining to bank documents, […]
Wyden Blasts Trump Weaponization of IRS Against Progressive Speech
Washington, D.C. — Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today issued the following statement on a new report that the Trump administration is weaponizing the IRS with politically-motivated targeting of progressive individuals and organizations: “Donald Trump believes he’s a king, and he’s determined to wield every agency under his control as a weapon […]
Wyden, Warren, Sanders, Warnock Probe Medicaid Contractors on Faulty Eligibility and Enrollment Systems
Text of the Letter (PDF) Washington, D.C. – Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Finance Committee Members Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Raphael G. Warnock, D-Ga., launched an inquiry into four of the largest contractors that build state Medicaid eligibility, enrollment, and information management systems across the country, as reports […]
Trumpcare is Already Wreaking Havoc on American Health Care
Text of Report Washington, D.C. – Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today released a report detailing the consequences of Donald Trump and Republicans ramming through reckless legislation that includes the largest health care cuts in U.S. history. “Trumpcare is threatening Americans’ health care in every community across the country,” Wyden said. “Thanks […]