Ahead of Confirmation Vote, Wyden Urges Senate to Reject Billy Long Nomination, Keep Trump’s Corruption out of IRS
In a few minutes the Senate will vote on whether to put somebody who’s knee deep in tax scams, corruption and cover-ups in charge of the IRS. This ought to be an easy no. It’s one corruption bombshell after another with former Congressman Billy Long. Fake tax credits. Scam tax advice. Shadowy political donations that […]
At Finance Committee Hearing, Wyden Blasts Bessent Over Republican Billionaire Bailout, Health Care Cuts
This morning’s hearing could be the only opportunity Democratic Senators have to question a top Trump official about the disastrous bill Republicans are writing behind closed doors. Robert Kennedy Jr. has been invited to appear, but it looks like he’s ducking us. Oz is waffling on his promise to hear from rural Oregonians about this […]
Wyden Asks Dr. Oz to Come to Eastern Oregon on June 20 Before Any Senate Vote on Republican Budget Bill
Washington, D.C. – Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., again asked Dr. Mehmet Oz to honor his commitment to join him in Malheur County so the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator could hear directly about Medicaid’s importance in the county with Oregon’s highest share of residents enrolled in the federal-state program […]
Wyden, Warner, Warnock, Welch Introduce Crackdown on “Round-Tripping” International Tax Loophole
Washington, D.C. – Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and committee members Mark Warner (D-Va.), Reverend Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.), and Peter Welch (D-Vt.) today introduced the Close the Round-Tripping Loophole Act to close an egregious international corporate tax loophole known as “round-tripping” that Republicans and the Trump administration blessed in their 2017 tax […]
Wyden Blasts Lax FBI Background Check of IRS Nominee Billy Long, Sounds Alarm over Court Documents Implicating Long in Major Bribery Conspiracy
Washington, D.C. – In a letter sent Tuesday to White House Chief of Staff Susan Wiles, Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) blasted the FBI’s background check of IRS nominee Billy Long as either irresponsibly inadequate or a deliberate whitewash. Senator Wyden cited the FBI’s apparent failure to investigate several matters of public […]
Wyden, Warren Seek Answers from Contractor that Stands to Profit as Millions Lose Health Care Coverage
Washington D.C. — U.S. Senators Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., said today they have written to Maximus, the largest contractor for Medicaid eligibility determinations, regarding the company’s potential profiteering under a Republican plan to cut Medicaid. In a warning of what could come if so-called “work requirements” pass into law, the senators pressed […]
Wyden-Grassley Report Exposes How Organ Procurement Organizations Game the System, Fail to Adequately Address Conflicts of Interest
Washington, D.C. – Senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee, and Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), a senior member and former chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, released the results of their bipartisan investigation into nonprofit Organ Procurement Organizations (OPO), which are responsible for obtaining donated organs for transplant and research in the […]
New JCT Analysis Exposes Republican Giveaway to the Wealthy Hidden in Expanded Passthrough Deduction
Washington, D.C. – Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) today released a new analysis by the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) that reveals an immense handout to the wealthy hidden within the Republican proposal to expand the tax deduction for passthrough entities known as Section 199A, a provision Republicans falsely claim is focused […]
Wyden, Bennet, Democratic Colleagues Urge Full Funding of Unemployment Insurance Administration
Washington, D.C. – Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), Finance Committee Member Michael F. Bennet (D-Colo.), House Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Richard Neal (D-Mass.), and Ways and Means Subcommittee on Worker and Family Support Ranking Member Danny Davis (D-Ill.), and 27 colleagues urged the Senate and House Appropriations Committees in May […]
Wyden Statement on Supreme Court Ruling to Allow DOGE to Access Americans’ Social Security Data
Washington, D.C. — Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today issued the following statement after the Supreme Court ruled that DOGE employees may have unlimited access to Americans’ sensitive Social Security records. “The Supreme Court has just unlocked the Fort Knox of Americans’ most personal and private information for a cabal of unelected, […]