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CBO Releases New Analysis Showing House-Passed “Big Beautiful Bill” Will Add Even More to the Deficit When Including Interest
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee, released the below statement following a new analysis published by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) which shows the Republican House-passed “Big Beautiful Bill” will add $3 trillion to the deficit when including the $551 billion in increased interest on […]
Merkley Statement on New CBO Analysis Showing Republican Plan Kicks 16 Million People Off Their Health Insurance
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee, released the below statement following analysis from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) showing that the Republican plan will kick 16 million people off of their health insurance to fund tax breaks for billionaires. “This is the Republican plan: stripping […]
CBO Analysis Shows House-Passed Reconciliation Bill Adds $2.4 Trillion to the 10-year Deficit
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) showing that the House-passed reconciliation bill would cost $2.4 trillion over the next 10 years. “Congressional Republicans will let nothing stand in the way of […]
Trump Tariffs Will Hurt Economic Growth, Boost Inflation, Raise Costs to Families, CBO Finds
WASHINGTON, D.C. – If the Trump tariffs remain in effect – in spite of a recent court ruling that they are illegal – they will slow economic growth, boost inflation, and hurt working- and middle-class families, according to a new analysis from the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO). The analysis was requested by Senate Budget […]
Merkley Statement on Trump’s Request to Codify Illegal, Disastrous DOGE Cuts to Foreign Aid, NPR and PBS
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee and senior member of the Senate Appropriations and Senate Foreign Relations Committees, released the below statement after the Trump Administration sent Congress a rescissions package that would implement disastrous cuts made illegally and unconstitutionally by the “Department of Government […]
Merkley Statement on GAO’s First Determination Showing the Trump Administration Violated the Impoundment Control Act
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee, released the below statement after the Government Accountability Office (GAO) published its first finding that the Trump Administration has violated the Impoundment Control Act. “The President is not a king, and laws are not suggestions,” said Ranking Member Jeff […]
Merkley Statement After Republican Reconciliation Bill Passed Out of the House
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee, released the below statement following House passage of the Republican reconciliation bill. “House Republicans have just passed Trump’s so called ‘big, beautiful bill.’ There is nothing beautiful about it. It is: families lose, billionaires win. “Millions of families will […]
Merkley: Nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office Confirms Republican Reconciliation Bill’s Impact is Families Lose, Billionaires Win
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee, released the below statement following analysis published by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) showing that the Republican reconciliation bill will heavily favor the rich, while working families pay the price. “The Republicans’ reconciliation bill has one outcome: families lose […]
Merkley Statement on the Republican Economy
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee, released the below statement after the latest troubling economic news on the Republican economy. “We are in the grip of the Trump Slump. Americans’ optimism on the economy has reached a near-record low, Moody’s has downgraded the United States’ credit […]