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 […]
Wyden, Warren Lead Colleagues to Introduce Legislation to Improve Access to Quality, Affordable Child Care for American Families
Building Child Care for a Better Future Act expands guaranteed child care funding to give more families access to affordable child care and provides grants to improve child care workforce, supply, quality, and access in areas of particular need like rural communities Meanwhile, Republican-proposed funding cuts to pay for tax breaks for billionaires would eliminate […]
Ahead of Final Vote, Wyden Urges Colleagues to Reject Oz Nomination, Protect Medicaid
Watch a video of Wyden deliver his remarks here As Prepared for Delivery Ahead of the Senate’s final vote on the nomination of Dr. Mehmet Oz to head up the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, I’d like to remind my colleagues exactly what’s at stake with this vote. Dr. Oz is the second Trump […]
Wyden Blasts Senate Republican Budget Resolution
Washington, D.C. — Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today issued the following statement on the release of the Senate Republican budget resolution: “No amount of gaslighting from Republicans about the true cost of their tax plan, now upward of $5 trillion, can hide the fact that they want to pay for handouts […]
Wyden Statement Following Finance Committee Vote on Bisignano Nomination to Lead Social Security
Washington, D.C. — Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today issued the following statement after the committee voted off the Senate floor on the nomination of Frank Bisignano to be the commissioner of Social Security. The vote was 14-13, a party line. “By moving ahead with this vote, the Republican majority is sending […]
Wyden: Oppose Price Hikes on Goods from Canada, Vote Down Trump Canada Tariffs
Watch a video of Wyden deliver his remarks here As Prepared for Delivery I rise to support my colleague Senator Kaine’s joint resolution to terminate Donald Trump’s order placing blanket tariffs on products Americans buy from Canada. There has been a lot of double-talk about trade, so I want to make one thing clear: Tariffs […]