Merkley Delivers Opening Statement at Sanctuary Cities Hearing
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, U.S. Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee, delivered the following opening statement at a Senate Budget Committee hearing on sanctuary cities. Ranking Member Merkley invited David J. Bier, Director of Immigration Studies and The Selz Foundation Chair in Immigration Policy at the Cato Institute, and Brendan Duke, […]
Merkley Statement on CBO Analysis Showing Trump’s Tariffs Will add $2 Trillion to the Debt Following Supreme Court Ruling
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee, released the below statement following new analysis from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projecting that because the Supreme Court struck down President Trump’s chaotic and reckless tariff policy, the debt is going to grow to even higher levels […]
New Report Reveals How Much Republicans’ Big Oil Donors Will Benefit From the Big, Ugly Betrayal Law
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee, released a staff report titled, One Big Fossil Fuel Handout: Republicans Further Subsidize the Dirty Fossil Fuel Industry, exposing the increased federal subsidies for the fossil fuel industry that Republicans included in the Big, Ugly Betrayal bill that was […]
REPORT One Big Fossil Fuel Handout Republicans Further Subsidize the Dirty Fossil Fuel Industry
Merkley Statement on CBO Long Term Budget Outlook
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee, issued the below statement following the release of the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office’s (CBO) Long Term Budget Outlook Data: 2026 to 2056. The statistics in this report were calculated prior to the Supreme Court striking down President Trump’s chaotic […]
Merkley Demands Independent Probe of Funds Used by ICE, CBP to Carry Out Trump’s Cruel Immigration Enforcement
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee, led 20 of his Senate colleagues in calling on the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) to probe the cost of President Donald Trump’s violent escalation of federal immigration enforcement. The senators are requesting a comprehensive assessment and accounting of […]
Letter to CBO on Cost of Immigration Enforcement Surge
Department of Defense Heeds Merkley, Senate Budget Committee Democrats’ Call to Release Unclassified Spend Plan for National Security Funding from the Big, Ugly Betrayal Law
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, after Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee, led Senate Budget Committee Democrats in demanding answers from Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth about his decision to classify the Department of Defense’s reconciliation spending plan, the Pentagon has finally released an unclassified spending plan. Hegseth’s obfuscation prevented Congress […]
Merkley Applauds Supreme Court Ruling to Overturn Trump’s Reciprocal Tariff Policy
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that President Trump exceeded his authority to impose the broad, misguided reciprocal tariffs that he put in place in April. Following the ruling, U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee, released the below statement. “Today is a win for farmers, small […]
Ranking Member Merkley Statement on CBO Baseline
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee, issued the below statement following the annual release of the Congressional Budget Office’s (CBO) Budget and Economic Outlook: 2026 to 2036. “Today’s economic outlook report by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office could not be more clear: Trump and Republicans […]