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October 2025
10/27/25	Merkley Leads Colleagues in Demanding CBO Probe the Cost of Trump’s National Guard Deployment to American Cities, Including Portland
10/24/25	Merkley, Wyden Call on Oz to Resolve Chaos as States Implement Trumpcare
10/11/25	Schumer, Merkley, Murray, Peters Call On Trump Budget Chief Russ Vought To Resign
September 2025
09/29/25	GAO Finds Trump Administration Again Violated the Impoundment Control Act by Withholding Funding
09/25/25	Merkley Statement on OMB’s Threat to Fire Public Servants if Republicans Shut Down the Government
09/22/25	Merkley Leads Senators in Demanding CBO Probe Trump’s Wasteful Use of Taxpayer Dollars in Renaming Department of Defense
09/18/25	Premium Spikes, Coverage Loss Will Worsen If Republicans Fail to Act on Tax Credits, CBO Says
09/16/25	Merkley to Senate Colleagues: Reject Paul’s Disastrous Budget Proposal
09/16/25	Trump Administration Violated the Impoundment Control Act by Withholding Funding, GAO Reports
09/04/25	Federal Court Backs Up Merkley’s Call that Trump’s Pocket Rescission is Illegal
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

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