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Ron Wyden
@ronwyden· Democratic · OR· May 3, 2025

All Americans should be concerned that a nominee for a position of public trust like commissioner of Social Security is accused of lying about his actions at the agency and that efforts to bring this important information to light are…

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Ron Wyden
@ronwyden· Democratic · OR· May 3, 2025

If Mr. Bisignano can get away with lying before he's even in place as commissioner, who knows what else he'll be able to get away with once he's in office.

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Maxine Dexter
@maxinedexter· OR· May 2, 2025

And yet, instead of empowering states to raise the bar on clean air, Republicans are telling them to stand down.

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Ron Wyden
@ronwyden· Democratic · OR· Apr 30, 2025

If this continues to be our tariff policy, every major economist and forecaster is unfortunately predicting recession, job losses, and the misery that was all over our news feeds this morning.

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Ron Wyden
@ronwyden· Democratic · OR· Apr 30, 2025

The only winner from Donald Trump's trade chaos is China, which is scooping up markets and trading partners that Trump has driven away.

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Ron Wyden
@ronwyden· Democratic · OR· Apr 30, 2025

In any sane world, it would be a scandal that the vast majority of one political party would vote for a pointless tax on the American people, one that is hiking prices and destroying jobs, all to please one man.

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Jeff Merkley
@jeffmerkley· Democratic · OR· Apr 29, 2025

In your knowledge of American history, has there ever been a Presidential first 100 days that showed this level of corruption that we are witnessing with this administration?

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Jeff Merkley
@jeffmerkley· Democratic · OR· Apr 29, 2025

I have a question for my colleague from Massachusetts, if she would yield for a question.

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Ron Wyden
@ronwyden· Democratic · OR· Apr 29, 2025

This inhumane, illegal, and unconstitutional action will inflict—and already has inflicted—irreparable harm on these individuals, undermines trust in and accuracy of the Social Security programs, and sets a dangerous precedent in allowing…

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Suzanne Bonamici
@suzannebonamici· Democratic · OR· Apr 10, 2025

In Kansas, more than 30,000 U.S. citizens, 12 percent of everyone seeking to register to vote, were barred from voting. Other States have tried. In all of them, a significant number of citizens have been wrongly barred from voting. It is…

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Ron Wyden
@ronwyden· Democratic · OR· Apr 1, 2025

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 to billionaires and corporations by kicking millions of Americans off their…

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Ron Wyden
@ronwyden· Democratic · OR· Mar 26, 2025

They are so desperate to give tax breaks to billionaires that they’ll basically use any budget rules imaginable to get it.

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Jeff Merkley
@jeffmerkley· Democratic · OR· Mar 26, 2025

Congressional Republicans need to realize that ‘magic math’ does not exist and tax cuts cost money, even if Republicans want to pretend that they don’t.

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Jeff Merkley
@jeffmerkley· Democratic · OR· Mar 26, 2025

What Republicans are attempting to do is upend decades of precedent and trample on the laws that govern how Congress budgets.

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Jeff Merkley
@jeffmerkley· Democratic · OR· Mar 26, 2025

Trump’s illegal gutting of the Education Department will only take good teachers out of the classroom and prevent students from accessing higher education.

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Ron Wyden
@ronwyden· Democratic · OR· Mar 25, 2025

So, according to the whistleblower, you personally intervened to get key DOGE officials installed at the agency who have masterminded this shipwreck that we’re dealing today.

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Ron Wyden
@ronwyden· Democratic · OR· Mar 24, 2025

Already, financial services firms are salivating at the possibility of profiting off of Americans' hard-earned retirement benefits.

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