I expect an effort to keep the Medicaid cuts hidden behind the curtain, but they're going to come sooner or later.
Ron Wyden
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Ron Wyden is an American politician serving as the senior United States senator from Oregon, a position he has held since 1996. A member of the Democratic Party, Wyden has been a prominent advocate for civil liberties, healthcare reform, and technology policy. Throughout his tenure, he has focused on issues such as privacy rights, government surveillance, and access to healthcare, often emphasizing the importance of transparency and accountability in government actions.
We demand that the IRS immediately clarify the extent to which DOGE team members may have inspected or be seeking to inspect the private tax return information of millions of Americans and whether taxpayer privacy laws are being enforced …
Any delay in refunds could be financially devastating to millions of Americans who plan their budgets around timely refunds every spring.
Software engineers working for Musk seeking to gain access to tax return information have no right to hoover up taxpayer data.
My office is hearing that DOGE is now at the IRS. That means Musk's henchmen are in a position to dig through a trove of data about every taxpayer in America.
If Apple is forced to build a backdoor in its products, that backdoor will end up in Americans' phones, tablets, and computers.
Back down from this dangerous attack on US cybersecurity, or face serious consequences.
Anti-vaccine crusader and the least qualified nominee to ever be nominated for a position of this importance
The least qualified nominee to ever be nominated for a position of this importance
The way this is written means only one thing: Republicans have their knives out for Americans’ health care.
Officials associated with Musk may have intended to access these payment systems to illegally withhold payments to any number of programs.
Notwithstanding rule XXII, I ask unanimous consent that the Senate proceed to the immediate consideration of the following bills en bloc: Calendar No. 586, S. 2160 and H.R. 7938, which was received from the House and is at the desk. There…
Before he leaves the floor, let me just thank the Senate majority leader. We have talked about this often. And I am particularly struck by the readings of the Founding Fathers because several of the Founding Fathers seem to think that a…
I'm not taking my foot off the gas. I'll keep trying to get this bill across the finish line to write much-needed protections for journalists and their sources into black letter law.
It would make it harder to do the bipartisan work on overpayments that we talked about in the Finance Committee.
The number one issue in the confirmation hearings for the Commissioner was this overpayment question.
I am here as Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee to work with my colleagues on both sides of the aisle
The question for the Congress and for the Senate is do we want to take the steps that the Chairman outlined
We Democrats know that the ultra-wealthy are avoiding nearly $2 trillion in taxes every ten years.
I said everybody has got to pay their fair share. No special exemptions for billionaires.