Pre-Trump, the economy was averaging 328,000 new jobs EVERY MONTH. But last year the U.S. only added 181,000 jobs TOTAL. If Trump isn’t lowering costs or growing the job market, what exactly is he doing?

Trump just made it easier to fire experts, silence whistleblowers, and replace nonpartisan public servants with loyalist hacks. No doubt this will weaken the programs that working Americans rely on most. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/u...

Trump promised to lower costs on Day One. Instead, he cost you $1,000 last year.

Republicans claim "fiscally responsibility" when they cut programs working families rely on, but when it comes to wealthy donors wanting tax breaks—$4.7 TRILLION in new debt is no problem for them! See the fallout from Trump’s Big, Ugly Bill for yourself:

🚨 NEW: CBO's 10-Year Economic Outlook confirms Trump and Republicans spent the past year making it hard for working families to get ahead while adding trillions of dollars to our national debt. www.budget.senate.gov/ranking-memb...

There is no low that Trump and Russ Vought won't stoop to when it comes to degrading and afflicting federal workers.  Denying disability insurance to a single mother dealing with a brain tumor is just cruel. www.huffpost.com/entry/russel...

Trump spent $589 MILLION+ deploying the National Guard to our cities and $0 to extend health care tax credits for working families. According to Trump, there's enough money for everything just none to help YOU.

In Trump’s Big, Ugly Bill, ICE got a $75 BILLION funding boost, more than 7x their annual budget. ICE is out of control and Republicans are funding the chaos.

Yet again, Russ Vought is weaponizing the federal government to punish Americans who didn’t vote for Trump. It’s shameful and it will cause real harm to working families.

Highest January layoffs since 2009. This is the economy Trump is giving an "A++++++" rating. Maybe for billionaires like himself, but certainly not for the working families who are now without a paycheck.

WATCH: @merkley.senate.gov calls out Republicans for defunding health care and SNAP to balloon ICE’s budget.

Transparency is not optional. Ranking Member @merkley.senate.gov is leading Senate Budget Dems in demanding answers from Pete Hegseth on why he classified his spending plans for the Big, Ugly Betrayal Bill.

ICE is out of control and Republicans are funding the chaos. They gave ICE $75 BILLION last summer, more than 7x their annual budget.

🔥Ranking Member @merkley.senate.gov LIGHTS UP Republicans for ceding Congress’s spending power to Donald Trump and Russ Vought.

Trump is trying to look like a strongman, and taxpayers are footing the bill.

Last summer, Republicans chose to fund ICE at unprecedented levels while cutting health care for MILLIONS of Americans. That says everything about their priorities.

BREAKING: Ranking Members @merkley.senate.gov, @durbin.senate.gov, and @peters.senate.gov led Senate Democrats in filing an amicus brief supporting critical protections for children in immigration detention.

To put Trump’s corporate tax giveaway in perspective: since the Big, Ugly Bill passed six months ago, Republicans have handed mega corporations $79 BILLION. Enough to fund health care tax credits for MILLIONS of working people for nearly three years.

President Donald Trump has pocketed at least $1.4 BILLION since reentering the White House. trib.al/fDvaDfx While Americans have been struggling against a weakening job market, soaring prices, and steadily increasing inflation, Trump has easily netted 16,822 times the median U.S. household income.

NEW: Ranking Member @merkley.senate.gov is calling for transparency from Trump's Budget Chief, Russ Vought, on the $100 million slush fund Republicans gifted Vought's office when they passed the Big, Ugly Betrayal law last July.

🚨HUGE UPDATE: A federal judge ruled that Trump and Vought illegally canceled these clean energy projects and ordered the funds to be restored. Senate Democrats will keep fighting to ensure the law is upheld and these cost-saving clean energy projects are fully funded.

Trump claims the affordability crisis Americans are facing is a hoax, all while he wastes money renaming agencies and renovating the White House. Ranking Member @merkley.senate.gov's full statement here: www.budget.senate.gov/ranking-memb...

No need to use AI. We already know the American people don't want more cuts to working class programs so that Republicans can deliver bigger tax breaks to their wealthy donors. Enough with your 𝗳𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗹𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗹𝗼𝘀𝗲, 𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗶𝗿𝗲𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝗻 agenda.

This is not what an “A+++++” economy looks like.

While working class Americans are getting sicker and poorer, Trump’s only concern is helping billion-dollar corporations get richer and richer.

Under Trump, hardworking families are forced to pay more for health insurance while tax cheats get away with raking in millions. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/b...

Republicans cannot continue to make working Americans sicker and poorer while giving handouts to billionaires. We must put an end to Trump’s families lose, and billionaires win agenda.   Ranking Member @merkley.senate.gov’s full statement on CBO's economic outlook linked below. ⤵️

After Trump's unauthorized attack in Venezuela, it's clear he cannot be trusted with a 50% increase in military spending. Americans are calling for lower costs and economic relief, not more deficit spending to fund forever wars. Trump's demands are completely unhinged.

Trump wants taxpayers to subsidize billion-dollar corporations to rebuild a foreign country, but won't extend ACA tax credits so working-class Americans can afford health care? For Trump, there’s always enough money—just none to help YOU. www.reuters.com/business/ene...

Republicans passed a bill that savaged healthcare for millions of Americans. More than 20 million now face escalating health insurance premiums and many will simply be priced out of coverage. All this stress and pain just to fund tax breaks for billionaires.

Democrats are fighting to give hardworking families a fair shot. Republicans are fighting to fund tax breaks for billionaires.

Another year down and Republicans still don’t have a health care plan. Unless you count kicking millions of people OFF their health care as a plan.

Energy bills are up 13% because of Trump’s anti-clean energy policies. Working people are paying more every month for basic utilities while Big Oil is raking in massive profits.  Families lose, billionaires win.

Trump failed at the one thing he was elected to do: lower costs. But it’s hardworking families who are paying the price for his recklessness. americanprogress.org/article/the-trump-administrations-tariffs-are-a-hidden-holiday-tax/

No matter what he says, Trump’s Golden Age for billionaires is the Dark Age for American families.

Trump has been lying about his tariffs from the beginning. Blanket tariffs are a tax on the American people and American businesses. Trump’s reckless tariffs are forcing families to pay more and devastating family farms and small businesses across the country.

The American people don't want empty words, they want lower prices. Every day, Trump is driving up costs and making it harder for hardworking families to make ends meet. It’s just more of his families lose and billionaires win agenda. apnews.com/article/trum...

Trump's tariffs screwed over American farmers and hardworking families. Farmers lost a stable market to sell in, and Americans are left paying for both the tariffs and the $12 BILLION bailout. This disaster was preventable and the only person to blame is Donald Trump.

You really can’t make this up.

Trump created a health care crisis when he passed his Big, Ugly Bill this year. And after months of Americans demanding a fix, he has nothing to offer. Democrats are fighting to cut costs and keep premiums down while Republicans are burying their heads in the sand.

Trump’s families lose, billionaires win agenda is wreaking havoc on Americans.

Farmers are the latest to suffer at the hands of Trump's families lose and billionaires win agenda. Ranking Member @SenJeffMerkley's full statement: www.budget.senate.gov/ranking-memb...

Trump's next Make American Hungry Again strategy: you can only eat if you're a Republican. apnews.com/article/food...

Trump’s budget cuts to USAID have unleashed horror on the most vulnerable. The Administration denies it, but their cuts to food and care programs have killed hundreds of thousands, many of them children. Congress must confront this tragedy. apnews.com/article/myan...

Trumpflation is destroying middle America. Trump’s tariffs are making everything more expensive, including groceries. Trump's love for fossil fuel is driving up utility prices. Trump's cuts to health care are doubling insurance costs. Its families lose and billionaires win.

Our fight to make sure every family can put food on the table continues.

Trump has been on a mission to make Americans hungry since Day 1.

Trump and Republicans are engaged in brazen corruption. This month alone: 💰Trump pardoned a crypto felon who financed his stable coin 💰Senate Rs tucked $500k payouts to themselves into a “clean” CR 💰Kristi Noem gave her pals $220 MILLION in taxpayer $$ with no-bid contracts

Hardworking Americans have always understood what Trump hasn't: his tariffs are driving up costs. Now, he’s seen the error of his ways and ordered tariff reductions on food imports, but families will continue to pay the price for his chaos. www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

Trump is more focused on throwing parties, building ballrooms, and marbling bathrooms than he is on helping the American people afford groceries.