Wyden Unveils Bills Closing Loopholes Allowing Wealthy Investors and Mega-Corporations to Abuse Partnerships to Dodge Taxes
Washington, D.C. – Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today introduced a pair of proposals, the Preventing Abusive Routine Tax Nonsense Enabled by Rip-offs, Shelters, and Havens and Instead Promoting Simplicity Act (PARTNERSHIPS Act) and the Basis Shifting is a Rip-off Act, to close loopholes that allow wealthy investors and mega-corporations to abuse […]
Wyden, Ocasio-Cortez Demand Answers from Palantir About Plans to Build IRS “Mega-Database” of American Citizens
Washington, D.C. – Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and eight other Members of Congress today questioned Palantir about reports that Palantir is helping the IRS to build a government-wide, searchable, “mega-database,” connecting sensitive tax and other data the government holds about American citizens. Building such a database […]
Wyden, Senate Democrats Announce Legislation to Improve Medicaid for Kids, Seniors, and Families While Cracking Down on Fraud
Washington, D.C. – Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today led a dozen Senate Democrats as they released legislative proposals to strengthen and invest in the Medicaid program for children, seniors, Americans with disabilities and working families, as well as draft legislation to boost federal anti-fraud initiatives. “The Republican bill is rotten to […]
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 […]