New Analysis Shows Federal Government to Save Nearly $2 for Every $1 Invested in Flood Prevention
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, at the request of U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released a report detailing that every $1 the federal government invests in flood adaptations can save taxpayers nearly $2 in disaster spending, as well as reduce National Flood Insurance […]
Merkley, Meeks, Shaheen, Jacobs Issue Statement on Troubling GAO Report on Status of Trump Admin’s Foreign Assistance
WASHINGTON, DC — U.S. Senators Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee, and Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Representatives Gregory W. Meeks (D-NY-5), Ranking Member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and Sara Jacobs (D-CA-51), Ranking Member of the Africa Subcommittee, issued a statement following […]
Republicans Block Merkley’s Bill to Eliminate Pocket Rescissions After the Trump Administration Again Illegally Claws Back Funds Without Consent from Congress
WASHINGTON, D.C. – After the Trump Administration issued another illegal pocket rescission late Friday night, U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee, took to the Senate floor to pass his bill, which would eliminate any future pocket rescissions and would nullify the newest illegal cancelation of Congressionally appropriated funds that […]
New Report Reveals How American Families Are Paying the Price for Trump’s Broken Promises
REPORT: Broken Promises, Real Costs: 11 Trump Lies That Are Hurting Americans WASHINGTON, D.C. – As costs continue to skyrocket and President Trump shows no interest in addressing the needs of the American people, U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee, today released a report documenting 11 failed promises Trump […]
Merkley Applauds GAO for Reaffirming that Trump’s Pocket Rescissions Are Illegal
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee, released the below statement after the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) reaffirmed that the Impoundment Control Act does now allow for the President to issue a pocket rescission on expiring funding. On Friday, President Trump issued more illegal pocket […]
Merkley Condemns More Pocket Rescissions by Trump Administration
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee, issued the below statement after President Donald Trump and the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Russ Vought issued more illegal pocket rescissions, this time clawing back nearly $1 billion in congressionally appropriated funding. “Once again, […]
Merkley, Baldwin Leads 25 Colleagues in Rejecting the Trump Admin’s Latest Move to Politicize and Undermine Education Funding
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee, and Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), Ranking Member of the Senate Appropriations Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Subcommittee, led 25 of their Senate colleagues in slamming the Department of Education’s (ED) latest move to further undermine the Department and […]
CBO Issues Scary As Hell New Debt Projections That Will Profoundly Impact American’s Economic Future
CBO Issues Scary As Hell New Debt Projections That Will Profoundly Impact American’s Economic Future If Interest Rates Increase by 1 Percent, the National Debt Will be 222 Percent of GDP Merkley Recently Penned an Op-Ed Detailing How the Federal Government Could Get Control of Our Growing Debt and Deficit WASHINGTON, D.C. – As interest […]
NEW: Trump’s War in Iran Cost DoD Nearly $40 Billion and Drove Nearly Half of Inflation, According to CBO Report
Text of Report (PDF) Washington, D.C. – Today, in response to an inquiry led by Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee, along with Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released new data on the cost of President Trump’s war in Iran. The […]
ICYMI: As National Debt Surpasses $40 Trillion, Budget Committee Ranking Member Merkley Calls on Congress to Curb Growing Deficit And Lays Out Deficit Reduction Plan
WASHINGTON, D.C. – In Case You Missed It, U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee, published an MS Now opinion essay detailing how the U.S. Government has reached unprecedented levels in our national debt while allowing federal deficits to continue to grow, even during a period of relative peace and […]