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 […]
Wyden Statement on New CBO Numbers Showing More than $930 Billion in Medicaid Cuts In New Senate Draft
Washington, D.C. — Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today issued the following statement after the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) delivered a preliminary analysis of the new Senate text of the Republican reconciliation bill showing the legislation will cut Medicaid by $930 billion, even deeper Medicaid cuts than passed by the House. That […]
Wyden Blasts Republican “Death Sentence” for American Clean Energy, Warns of Imminent Utility Bill Hike
Washington, D.C. — Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today issued the following statement on the energy tax policy changes Republicans proposed in the latest version of their reconciliation bill: “In the middle of the night, just hours before we’re supposed to vote on this megabill, Republicans released changes that amount to a […]
Wyden, Collins Reintroduce Legislation to Bring Marriage Equality to the Tax Code
Washington, D.C. – Marking the 10th anniversary of Obergefell v. Hodges, Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Senate Appropriations Committee Chair Susan Collins, R-Maine, reintroduced bipartisan legislation providing equality in the tax code for all legal marriages. The Equal Dignity for Married Taxpayers Act would remove gender-specific references to marriage in the […]
Wyden, Warner, Merkley and Schumer Highlight Threat to Nursing Homes if GOP Approves Medicaid Cuts
Washington, D.C. – Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., Finance Committee member Senator Mark Warner, D-Va., Senate Budget Committee Ranking Member Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., and Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., today shared new data about the impact of the Republican budget bill on nursing homes and Americans who count on these facilities. […]