Wyden Statement at Finance Committee Markup of Bipartisan Tax Administration Legislation
As Prepared for Delivery A video of these remarks is here. The Committee meets this morning to consider legislation that reflects years of bipartisan work. It contains dozens of provisions championed by members of this committee, and I look forward to moving them across the finish line. The Taxpayer Assistance and Service Act contains common-sense […]
Wyden, Neal Introduce Legislation to Block Trump’s Audit Immunity Deal
Washington, D.C. — Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden D-Ore. and House Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Richard E. Neal D-Mass. today introduced legislation to once and for all rescind the unprecedented audit immunity granted to President Trump, his family, businesses, and associates as part of the Administration’s collusive settlement in Trump v. […]
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 […]