Wyden Unveils Proposal to Ensure Data Centers Pay for Disruptions Caused to Communities
Washington, D.C. – Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today unveiled a draft proposal to change the tax treatment of data centers as hyperscalers continue their unprecedented building of data centers used to advance new artificial intelligence (AI) tools. “American communities are rightfully questioning whether the rapid buildout of data centers across the […]
Wyden Statement on Decertification of Kentucky Organ Procurement Organization
Washington, D.C. — Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today issued the following statement after the Department of Health and Human Services announced that the Organ Procurement Organization (OPO), Network of Hope, will be decertified, meaning they can no longer participate in the national Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network that connects organ donors […]
Wyden Warns Social Security Commission is Fast Track for Gutting Benefits
As Prepared for Delivery A video of these remarks is here. Today the Finance Committee is gathered to discuss the future of Social Security. The Trust Fund will be depleted before the end of the next presidential administration. Today Republican members of this panel will claim they have the solution: an unaccountable “commission” that will […]
Wyden Investigates Trump and RFK Jr. Corruption Favoring Big Tobacco and Kratom Companies
Washington, D.C. – Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., this week launched an investigation into the Trump administration’s corrupt ties to Big Tobacco and the kratom industry. In his letters to Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Botanic Tonics CEO Jerry Ross,, and David Waterfield, President and […]
Wyden, Warnock Lead Senate Democrats in Call to Stop Red Tape Requirements in Medicaid
Washington, D.C. – Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock, D-Ga., today led all 47 members of the Senate Democratic caucus in a call for the Trump administration to withdraw a rule to implement work reporting requirements for Medicaid that will take effect at the beginning of 2027. “We […]
Wyden Releases New Report on Failure of Wall Street Banks to Blow the Whistle on Jeffrey Epstein’s Sex Trafficking and Money Laundering Schemes
Washington, D.C. – Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today released a new report detailing how years of complicity by top officials at multiple Wall Street Banks enabled Jeffrey Epstein to transfer hundreds of millions of dollars around the world to finance his sex trafficking operation. Wyden’s report, “Looking the Other Way,” caps […]
Wyden and Pallone Denounce Trump Disenrollment Scheme
Text of the Letter (PDF) Washington, D.C. – Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and House Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr., D-N.J. last week called for full repeal of Medicaid work reporting requirements included in the One, Big, Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) and called on the Trump administration to reverse […]
Republican Health Care Cuts Continue to Devastate American Families
Text of the Report (PDF) Washington, D.C. – Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and House Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone Jr., D-N.J., today released their latest report spotlighting the consequences of the Republican Big Ugly Betrayal, which slashed over $1 trillion from Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act in […]
Following Calls from Wyden to Crack down on Forced Labor in Xinjiang, DHS Adds New Companies to Sanctions List
Washington, D.C. – Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., called on the Trump administration to continue stepping up efforts to crack down on forced labor, following the announcement today that the Department of Homeland Security will add 43 entities to the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA) Entity List. “This action is long […]
Wyden Sounds Alarm on Trump Administration’s Critical Failure to Fund Legal Representation for Unaccompanied Minors
Washington, D.C. – Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today issued a statement ahead of the expected lapse of a federal contract this Friday that funds a network of legal service providers who assist unaccompanied children in navigating the legal system while they are in the custody of the Office of Refugee Resettlement […]