Following Pressure From Wyden and Colleagues, Trump Administration Confirms No Frontline Workers Have Been Recategorized as “Schedule F” at Social Security
Washington, D.C. – Following U.S. Senator Ron Wyden sounding the alarm on the Trump administration stripping civil service protections at the Social Security Administration, the administration has confirmed that no frontline workers have been reclassified at the agency. Social Security Administration Commissioner Frank Bisignano confirmed that the agency has not yet reclassified any workers as […]
Wyden Statement on Supreme Court Planned Parenthood Ruling
Washington, D.C. — Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today issued the following statement on the Supreme Court’s ruling allowing states to block Medicaid funding for Planned Parenthood clinics: “Republicans will stop at nothing in their crusade to rip health care away from women in America. Medicaid has always allowed patients the freedom […]
Wyden, Merkley, Colleagues Demands Congressional Leaders Reverse Devastating Budget Cuts to Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act
Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley, both D-Ore., today joined Senate colleagues to demand that Republican leadership reverse the cuts to Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act laid out in the House-passed reconciliation bill. “Medical debt affects 100 million people in the U.S., amounting to $269 billion in unpaid medical bills. […]
Wyden Statement on Parliamentarian Reconciliation Decisions
Washington, D.C. — Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today issued the following statement after the Senate Parliamentarian advised that 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. These include provider tax changes and the ban […]
The Senate Republican Tax Plan: Officially Worse than the House Republican Tax Plan
Washington, D.C. – The Republican megabill is an unprecedented handout to big corporations and the wealthy paid for by stealing from typical families and driving millions of Americans into hardship and misery. A new distributional analysis by the nonpartisan Joint Committee on Taxation of the tax provisions in the bill shows that the Senate Republican […]
Wyden Blasts HHS Secretary Kennedy for Purging All Experts on Top Vaccine Panel at CDC Despite Public Promise at Finance Committee Hearing
Washington, D.C. – Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., blasted Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., for purging all 17 vaccine experts and replacing them with unqualified skeptics who have serious conflicts of interests on a top advisory panel at the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) despite […]
Wyden, Schumer Reveal True Cost of Republicans’ “Big, Ugly Betrayal”: $4.2 TRILLION in Tax Giveaways to the Ultra-Rich Paid for on the Backs of American Families
Washington, D.C. – Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) released the following statement today on the new estimate from the Joint Committee on Taxation that the Republican tax plan costs $4.2 trillion when measured against current law, the traditional accounting method for tax policy in Congress: […]
Wyden Opposes the Nomination of Rodney Scott to Lead CBP
Watch a video of Wyden deliver his remarks here I rise to oppose the nomination of Rodney Scott to lead the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency. This is yet another appalling nomination from the Trump administration. As a senior federal official, agents in Mr. Scott’s direct chain of command tried to cover up their […]
Wyden Statement on the Social Security and Medicare Trust Funds Report
Washington, D.C. — Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today issued the following statement after the trustees of the Social Security and Medicare trust funds issued their annual report about the fiscal health of the trust funds. The report finds that the Social Security Old-Age and Survivors Insurance (OASI) Trust Fund will be […]
Following New Epstein Revelations, Wyden Renews Demand for Trump Administration to Produce Epstein Files
Washington, D.C. – Following new revelations about Jeffrey Epstein’s financial ties to a prominent Trump donor and accusations regarding the president himself, Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) today renewed his demand that the Trump administration produce key Epstein documents in the possession of the Department of Justice and the U.S. Treasury. “This […]