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 […]
Warner, Wyden, Sanders and Schumer Lead Senate Colleagues Demanding Answers on Layoffs Bringing Harm to Americans’ Health and Well-Being
Text of the Letter (PDF) Washington, D.C. – Senator Mark Warner, D-Va., Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee Ranking Member Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., today led 34 members of the Senate Democratic caucus in a letter to the […]
Wyden Joins Cortez Masto, Cassidy, Colleagues in Pushing for Long-Needed Update to Supplemental Security Income Program
Washington, D.C. – Today, Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., joined U.S. Senators Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nev., and Bill Cassidy, R-La., in introducing the SSI Savings Penalty Elimination Act to reform the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program, which has not been updated in 40 years. Currently, the program unfairly punishes lower-income seniors and […]
Wyden Opposes Committee Vote to Advance Bisignano’s Nomination to Lead Social Security
Today, the Finance Committee will vote on the nomination of Frank Bisignano to be the commissioner of the Social Security Administration. I want to be clear from the outset, colleagues. The Finance Committee should not be holding this vote today. This nominee lied multiple times to every member of this Committee, including the Chairman and […]
Wyden, Grassley Sound the Alarm on Officials Bypassing Organ Donation List, “Skipping the Line” for Less Critical Patients
Washington, D.C. – Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, are demanding answers from Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) officials regarding a reported increase in organs allocated out of sequence, a practice known as “line skipping.” Grassley, a former chairman and senior member of […]
Wyden Calls on Crapo to Pause Committee Consideration of Social Security Nomination Until Further Investigation of Bisignano Lies
Washington, D.C. – Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today urged the chairman of the Committee to pause consideration of the nominee to lead the Social Security Administration (SSA) after a statement from a whistleblower at the agency indicated he lied about his involvement in agency decisions related to DOGE. “I write to […]