Wyden, Warren Press Social Security Commissioner on Broken Staffing Promises
Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senators Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., today demanded the Social Security Administration answer reports that the agency is reassigning thousands of field office employees to staff a “pilot” phone program aimed at reducing hours-long phone wait times. Wyden and Warren wrote Social Security Commissioner Frank Bisignano that after gutting […]
Wyden, Merkley, Markey, Schumer Release Data Detailing Hundreds of Rural Hospitals Across U.S. at Risk Due to Republican Health Care Cuts
Washington (June 12, 2025) – U.S. Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley, both D-Ore., today joined with U.S. Sen. Edward J. Markey, D-Mass., and Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y, to release new data concluding that health care cuts in the Republican budget bill could place more than 300 rural hospitals across the U.S. at disproportionate […]
Wyden Blasts Trump Tariffs on Brazilian Beef, Coffee and Building Materials to Protect Brazil’s Corrupt Ex-President
Washington, D.C. — Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., released the following statement on Donald Trump’s threat to impose 50 percent tariffs on products imported from Brazil, as retribution for the prosecution of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, who is charged with trying to overturn a democratic election in 2022. “Trump is going […]
Wyden Blasts Trump Tariff Letters: ‘More Trade Taxes, Higher Prices, More Uncertainty.’
Washington, D.C. — Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., released the following statement on Donald Trump’s latest round of tariff announcements, and delay of tariffs expected on July 9 until August 1: “Donald Trump has extended his tariff purgatory for another month, with more threats of trade taxes, more price-hiking tariffs and more […]
Wyden to USTR: Congress Must Approve Binding Trade Deals
Washington, D.C. – One week before Donald Trump’s deadline to strike deals with scores of countries subject to massive global tariffs, Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., reiterated that any binding trade deal must come before Congress for approval, as required by the Constitution, in a letter to U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer […]
Wyden, Warren, Gillibrand, and Sanders Demand Answers on Reckless Rollout of AI Tools at Social Security
Washington, D.C. – Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., along with Senators Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., demanded answers from the Trump administration for recklessly installing artificial intelligence (AI) into its phone systems that have blocked people from accessing their earned Social Security benefits – all while leaving […]
Wyden Condemns Passage of Cruel Senate Republican Budget
Washington, D.C. — Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today issued the following statement condemning the passage of the Senate Republican reconciliation bill: “People all over this country are starved for opportunity, crushed by the cost of living and unable to afford the health care they need, but apparently Republicans think they’ve still […]
Wyden Opposes Trump and Senate Republicans’ Big Bad Bill Ahead of the Vote
Watch a video of Wyden deliver his remarks here In just a moment I’ll get into the specifics on this horrifying bill — all the details on the health care carnage and the clean energy bloodbath Republicans are dragging us toward. First let’s talk about the state of the Senate — and our democracy. As […]
Wyden Blasts Budget Fakery as Republicans Go Nuclear
Washington, D.C. — Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today issued the following statement after Senate Republicans faked their budget math, sidestepped the Parliamentarian and violated the Congressional Budget Act to set up their reconciliation bill to pass with a simple majority vote: “The only way for Republicans to pass this horribly destructive […]
Wyden Statement on Latest Parliamentarian Guidance
Washington, D.C. — Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today issued the following statement after the Senate Parliamentarian advised that additional Finance provisions of the Republican reconciliation bill violate the Senate’s Byrd Rule and would be subject to a 60-vote threshold if included in the bill. “The latest guidance from the Senate Parliamentarian […]