Ranking Member Press

March 2025
Merkley Statement at Committee Vote on OMB Deputy Director Nominee Bishop
CBO Analysis Proves Republican Budget Goals Are Impossible Without Gutting Medicaid
Here's What They're Saying: Bipartisan Policymakers & Budget Policy Analysts Criticize Republicans’ “Magic Math” That Will Explode the Deficit
Merkley Opening Statement at Bishop Nomination Hearing
February 2025
Senate Budget Committee Ranking Member: House Republican Budget Proposal Means “Families Lose, Billionaires Win”
Merkley: Families Lose, Billionaires Win Under Republican Budget Resolution
Merkley: Republicans Are Running Up Massive Debt at Betrayal of America’s Working Families
Merkley, Murray, Peters Seek Clarity on Scope, Reach of OMB Funding Cuts, Who Authored Disastrous Memo
Senate Budget Committee Ranking Member: House Republican Budget Proposal is “One Big, Awful Pile of Junk”
Budget Committee Ranking Member Merkley: Proposed Budget Resolution is Bait and Switch for Working Families
Budget Committee Ranking Member Merkley: Vought Dangerously Unfit to Lead OMB
January 2025
Budget Committee Democrats, Leader Schumer Press to Delay Vought’s OMB Nomination
Budget Committee Ranking Member Merkley Slams Illegal Federal Funding Freezes
Merkley Statement at Vought Nomination Hearing
Budget Committee Ranking Member Merkley Statement on CBO Baseline
Private Equity in Health Care Shown to Harm Patients, Degrade Care, and Drive Hospital Closures
Senate Budget Committee Investigation into Nazi-Linked Credit Suisse Accounts Yields Extensive New Findings, Reveals Bank’s Historic Pattern of Obstruction
December 2024
CBO Backs Key Committee Findings on Economic Costs, Systemic Risks of Climate Change
Trump’s Tariffs Would Boost Inflation, Shrink the Economy, CBO Finds
New Data Reveal Climate Change-Driven Insurance Crisis is Spreading
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