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Merkley, Wyden Probe CMS for Answers Surrounding the Disastrous Roll Out of the Medicare Advantage Provider-Directory Portal, Potentially Putting Seniors at Risk

November 4, 2025

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee, and Ron Wyden (D-OR), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, demand that Dr. Mehmet Oz, Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, answer for the rushed launch of the Medicare Advantage provider-directory tool

Merkley Leads Colleagues in Demanding CBO Probe the Cost of Trump’s National Guard Deployment to American Cities, Including Portland

October 27, 2025

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee, led several of his Senate colleagues in calling on the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) to probe the cost of the Trump Administration’s brazen decision to deploy National Guard personnel to U.S. cities. President Trump has ordered

Merkley, Wyden Call on Oz to Resolve Chaos as States Implement Trumpcare

October 24, 2025

Despite Republican Efforts to Roll Back Improvements to Medicaid and Medicare, Democrats Used Senate Rules to Preserve More than a Dozen Policies; State Medicaid Programs Have Received Minimal Direction from the Trump Administration About How to Implement These Roll Backs or Preserve Remaining Policies, Raising Specter of Confusion, Lost Coverage

Schumer, Merkley, Murray, Peters Call On Trump Budget Chief Russ Vought To Resign

October 11, 2025

Washington, D.C. – Today, Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and US Senators Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee, Patty Murray (D-WA), Vice-Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, and Gary Peters (D-MI), Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, released the following joint

Merkley Leads Senators to Call for Removal of Political Propaganda from Federal Agency Websites and Communication Channels

October 7, 2025

Washington, D.C. – As the Trump Administration blatantly tries to weaponize federal funding and misuse official government communications channels for partisan propaganda purposes, Oregon’s U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley and Rhode Island’s U.S. Senator Jack Reed, both senior members of the Senate Appropriations Committee, led 22 Senate colleagues—including Oregon Senator Ron Wyden—in

Merkley, Wyden Join Colleagues to Champion Expanding Head Start for Working Families

September 25, 2025

Washington, D.C. – As the Trump Administration continues to attack and undermine Head Start, Oregon’s U.S. Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden announced today they joined their Senate colleagues to introduce the Head Start for America’s Children Act. This sweeping legislation would expand Head Start to ensure that more than 11

Merkley Leads Senators in Demanding CBO Probe Trump’s Wasteful Use of Taxpayer Dollars in Renaming Department of Defense

September 22, 2025

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee, led nine of his Senate colleagues in calling on the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) to probe the cost of President Donald Trump’s recent executive order renaming the Department of Defense to the Department of War.

Merkley, Warnock Lead Bipartisan Effort Urging Education Department to Release Federal Grants Supporting Low-Income Students Nationwide

September 10, 2025

Washington, D.C. – Oregon’s U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley and Georgia’s U.S. Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock spearheaded a bipartisan group of 34 Senators in demanding Department of Education Secretary Linda McMahon and Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Russell Vought immediately release critical grant funding for TRIO programs, a long-standing

Merkley, Wyden, Padilla, Bonamici, Bipartisan Colleagues Urge Administration to Release $52.1 Million in Federal Education Funds for Agricultural Farmworker Students

September 10, 2025

Washington, D.C. – Oregon’s U.S. Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden, California’s U.S. Senator Alex Padilla, and U.S. Representative Suzanne Bonamici (OR-01) today led 26 lawmakers to demand Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Russell Vought and Education Secretary Linda McMahon immediately release $52,123,000 for the High School Equivalency

Merkley, Bynum, Oregon Delegation Sound the Alarm Over the Trump EPA’s Illegal Termination of Solar for All Funding

August 8, 2025

Washington, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley and U.S. Representative Janelle Bynum (OR-05) led their Oregon delegation colleagues—Senator Ron Wyden and Representatives Suzanne Bonamici (OR-01), Val Hoyle (OR-04), Andrea Salinas (OR-06), and Maxine Dexter (OR-03)—in demanding the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) follow the law and immediately reverse its termination of an $86.6 million federal award to Oregon under the Solar