Ron Wyden: “If you wanted to turn rural America into sacrifice zones where hospitals shut down and people cannot get the health care…”

These unsung heroes deserve recognition for their tireless efforts to keep our communities safe and healthy, and I’m honored to be leading this effort in Congress.

What I'm committed to doing is getting both of these over the finish line.

This interpretation is wildly inconsistent with the longstanding treatment of other provisions that use identical or near-identical language.

The Department’s recent decision in August 2026 to quietly strip explicit prohibitions against political interference from its Scientific Integrity Policy is yet another attempt by the Trump administration to undermine scientific facts and…