Wyden Blasts Trump Tariff Chaos and Billionaire Handouts in Hearing on Trade and Tax Nominees
Joining the Finance Committee this morning are William Kimmitt, the nominee for Commerce under secretary for international trade, and Kenneth Kies, the nominee for assistant Treasury secretary for tax policy. They’ll make up Donald Trump’s hand-picked team to run key portions of the most self-destructive, incompetent, anti-worker economic agenda in modern American history. Trump is […]
In Open Letter to the American Public, Senate Democrats Warn Against Republican Cuts to Health Care to Pay for Tax Handouts for Billionaires
Text of the Letter (PDF) Washington, D.C. – Senate Democrats sent an open letter to the American public today, warning families across the nation about Republicans’ efforts in Congress to pass legislation that would deliver a tax handout that disproportionately benefits millionaires and billionaires while taking away health insurance and health care benefits from millions […]
Wyden, Cortez Masto, Warren, Padilla Seek Watchdog Investigation of Potential Trump Admin. Violations of Taxpayer Privacy Laws
Washington, D.C. – Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., Senator Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nev., Senator Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Senator Alex Padilla, D-Calif., and additional Democratic Senators today wrote to the acting Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration seeking an investigation into several reports that the Trump administration is potentially violating strict taxpayer […]
Wyden Statement on Trump Tariff Announcement
Washington, D.C. — Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today slammed Donald Trump for prolonging the chaos and pain he is inflicting on families and small businesses with his senseless global tariffs. Trump announced a 90-day delay of some of the tariffs in a Truth Social post, but confirmed a 10 percent tariff […]
Wyden, Paul, Schumer and Kaine Release Bipartisan Resolution to Repeal Global Tariffs and Restore Congressional Authority Over Trade
Washington, D.C. – Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., released a resolution today that would repeal Donald Trump’s global tariffs, along with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and Sens. Tim Kaine, D-Va., Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., Peter Welch, D-Vt., and Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass. The resolution will formally be […]
Wyden’s Statement at the Finance Hearing on Trump’s Global Trade Agenda
Today’s hearing on the president’s trade agenda begins with Americans’ retirement funds, investors and our economy in purgatory, thanks to Donald Trump’s plan to hike tariffs to levels not seen since before the invention of the automobile. Prices are continuing to increase. And markets for made-in-the-U.S.A. products are slamming shut around the world. The U.S. […]
Wyden Statement on Trump Weaponizing IRS and Violating Taxpayer Privacy Laws
Washington, D.C. — Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., issued the following statement today on new reports that the Trump administration and Elon Musk are attempting to violate taxpayer privacy laws to sweep up the records of millions of immigrant taxpayers and accelerate the administration’s abuse of IRS data. “What Trump and Musk’s […]
Wyden Asks Dr. Oz to Honor His Commitment to Come to Eastern Oregon
Washington, D.C. – Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., invited Dr. Mehmet Oz to honor his recent commitment to join him for a Malheur County town hall so the Trump appointee could hear directly about Medicaid’s importance in the county with the state’s highest share of residents enrolled in the federal-state program that helps seniors, children, families and […]
Wyden: Republican Budget Proposal is a Bailout for Billionaires as Trump Wrecks the Economy
Watch a video of Wyden deliver his remarks here As Prepared for Delivery All around the country this morning, Americans turned on the news and saw panic. People are wincing as they look at their retirement accounts. Their savings are down. The cost of their morning coffee and eggs are up. The markets are looking […]
Wyden, Merkley, Neal, Boyle Release Staggering New Cost Estimate of Republican Tax Plan, Blast Giveaways to Corporations and the Wealthy
Washington, D.C. – Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., Senate Budget Committee Ranking Member Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., House Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Richard E. Neal, D-Mass., and House Budget Committee Ranking Member Brendan F. Boyle, D-Pa., released the statement below on a new estimate from the Joint Committee on Taxation that […]