Ranking Member Press

February 2025
Senate Budget Committee Ranking Member: House Republican Budget Proposal is “One Big, Awful Pile of Junk”
Budget Committee Ranking Member Merkley: Proposed Budget Resolution is Bait and Switch for Working Families
Budget Committee Ranking Member Merkley: Vought Dangerously Unfit to Lead OMB
January 2025
Budget Committee Democrats, Leader Schumer Press to Delay Vought’s OMB Nomination
Budget Committee Ranking Member Merkley Slams Illegal Federal Funding Freezes
Merkley Statement at Vought Nomination Hearing
Budget Committee Ranking Member Merkley Statement on CBO Baseline
Private Equity in Health Care Shown to Harm Patients, Degrade Care, and Drive Hospital Closures
Senate Budget Committee Investigation into Nazi-Linked Credit Suisse Accounts Yields Extensive New Findings, Reveals Bank’s Historic Pattern of Obstruction
December 2024
CBO Backs Key Committee Findings on Economic Costs, Systemic Risks of Climate Change
Trump’s Tariffs Would Boost Inflation, Shrink the Economy, CBO Finds
New Data Reveal Climate Change-Driven Insurance Crisis is Spreading
Budget Committee Releases Sweeping New Report Highlighting Economic, Budgetary Costs of Climate Change
Democrats’ Health Care Proposals Would Make Sure 400,000 Additional Kids Receive Health Care, Boost Economic Growth, CBO Finds
Debt Ceiling Process Needlessly Exposes United States to Substantial Default Risk, Warns GAO
Extending Trump’s Tax Cuts for the Wealthy Will Shrink the Economy, CBO Finds
October 2024
Whitehouse, Pallone Join Forces to Press Big Oil for Answers About Suspected Collusion with OPEC
CBO Finds Yawning Wealth Gap Continues, Highlights Congressional Imperative to Unrig Tax Code
September 2024
Raising the Retirement Age is a Benefit Cut, CBO Finds
Whitehouse Blasts Paul’s Budget
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