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August 2025
08/29/25	Merkley Blasts Trump Administration for Invoking Illegal Maneuver to Claw Back Bipartisan, Congressionally Appropriated Foreign Aid
08/18/25	Trump’s Big, Beautiful-for-Billionaires Law Triggers $536 Billion Cut to Medicare Over Next Decade
08/11/25	New CBO Analysis Confirms Republicans’ Big Ugly Law Steals from the Poor, Gives to the Ultra-Rich
08/05/25	Merkley Statement on GAO Determination That Trump Administration Violated the Impoundment Control Act by Withholding NIH Grant Funding
08/04/25	CBO Tells Merkley: When Including Interest and Assuming Temporary Tax Provisions Are Made Permanent, “One Big, Beautiful Bill” Adds $5 Trillion to Debt
July 2025
07/31/25	Merkley Statement on Additional GAO Determination That Trump Administration Again Violated the Impoundment Control Act
07/30/25	After Republicans Passed The Largest Healthcare Cut In History And On The 60th Anniversary Of The Creation Of Medicaid And Medicare, Ranking Member Merkley, Leader Schumer, And Senate Democrats Introduce Legislation To Reverse Devastating Healthcare Cuts In Republicans’ “Big, Ugly Betrayal”
07/23/25	Merkley, Boyle, Durbin, Kaine Introduce Legislation to Prevent Future Debt Ceiling Hostage Taking
07/23/25	Merkley Statement on GAO’s Determination Showing the Trump Administration Again Violated the Impoundment Control Act by Withholding Funding for Head Start
07/21/25	CBO Reports the Final “One Big, Beautiful Bill” Tally Will Add $3.4 Trillion to Deficits Over 10 Years
07/18/25	Merkley, Sanders, Pallone, Boyle Statement on CBO’s Analysis Showing That Trump’s Proposed Cuts to NIH, FDA Will Mean Fewer Medications
07/17/25	Merkley Statement on Senate Republicans Rubber Stamping the Trump Administration’s Disastrous DOGE Cuts
07/03/25	Merkley: House Republicans Stand with Billionaires, Continue the Great Betrayal of Working Families
07/01/25	Merkley Statement on Senate Republicans Passing the “One Big, Beautiful Bill”
June 2025
06/30/25	Merkley, Wyden Blast Republicans for Defunding Planned Parenthood in Trump’s Big Bad Bill
06/29/25	All Week, Merkley Has Sounded the Alarm on Republicans’ Attempt to Invoke a Budget Gimmick
06/29/25	CBO Tells Merkley that Republicans’ “One Big, Beautiful Bill” is Out of Compliance with the Rules of Reconciliation
06/29/25	Byrd Bath Violations Continue to Roll in on Republicans’ “One Big, Beautiful Bill”
06/27/25	Senate Parliamentarian Advises on More Byrd Bath Violations in Republicans’ “One Big, Beautiful Bill”
06/27/25	More Provisions Violate Byrd Rule in Republicans’ “One Big, Beautiful Bill”

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