Ranking Member @merkley.senate.gov is leading efforts to uncover how much taxpayer money is being wasted on Trump’s renaming of the Department of Defense. Trump has illegally frozen and even cancelled critical funding families rely on but will spend freely on political theater.

Working families counted on Republicans to pass a spending bill that helps everyday people but Republicans have smashed that hope once again with a families lose, billionaires win proposal.

🚨NEW: Nonpartisan analysis confirms Republicans' actions are driving costs up, making it harder for working families to get access to health care. That includes slashing the tax credits that so many families rely on. 15 million people are now set to lose health care coverage.

Republicans are pushing labor and delivery units across the country to the brink. Moms and babies will pay a devastating price for Trump’s tax give away to the wealthy. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

A message for Republicans who want to cut everything BUT tax handouts to the ultra-wealthy:

Ranking Member @merkley.senate.gov is right: it's fiscally irresponsible to fund tax cuts for billionaires by slashing programs that support families.

Under Trump’s policies, families lose and billionaires win.

🚨Trump Administration Illegally Withheld Funding AGAIN, Government Watchdog Reports www.budget.senate.gov/ranking-memb...

Why are Congressional Republicans allowing Trump to undermine their Constitutional power of the purse? Trump and Russ Vought are illegally withholding taxpayer dollars—money Republican lawmakers approved—yet they remain silent.

Republicans created a health care crisis: skyrocketing premiums, rural hospitals closing, folks kicked off insurance.   Democrats want to fix it.   Trump and Rs control Congress and the White House—they'd rather shut down the government than fix health care for you and your family.

Communities across the country are sounding the alarm: Trump’s health care cuts are going to hurt millions of Americans.

Here's a free idea: stop giving billionaires and corporations more tax breaks.

If Trump is really a fighter for working people, why do most of the benefits from his “One Big, Beautiful Bill” go to the richest Americans? Something’s not adding up....

NEWS: Virginia is losing three rural clinics in direct response to Trump's Medicaid cuts. Republicans knew this would happen and they voted for the cuts anyway. www.12onyourside.com/2025/09/08/a...

Trump’s “Make Healthcare Really Expensive” plan is running at full throttle. Families lose, billionaires win.

Trump’s personal wealth has grown by over $3 BILLION since entering public office—even as he’s cut health care and food assistance for millions of families. While rural hospitals close and kids go hungry, Trump is using the Presidency to enrich himself.

BRUTAL: Only 22,000 jobs were added this month as new data tells us that Trump LOST 13,000 jobs in June—the first net loss of jobs since December of 2020.   Trump is destroying opportunity for workers, again.

🚨HUGE WIN: A federal court has confirmed what Ranking Member @merkley.senate.gov has been saying all along: Trump and Vought CANNOT trample on Congress's power of the purse and claw back approved funding with their illegal “pocket rescission.”

Trump’s policies kill jobs.

Russ Vought has been "weaponizing bureaucracy" to defy the law since he was confirmed as Trump's budget chief. It's no surprise he wants to defund any group who might hold him accountable. www.axios.com/2025/09/03/r...

Hint for Republicans: the name isn’t the issue.   It’s the fact that you’re selling Americans out—kicking 15+ million people off their health care, jacking up the cost of utility bills, and taking food off of the plates of hungry kids. That’s the issue.

What's on brand is Trump thinking a shiny, new name will make Americans forget that Republicans cut health care for 15 million people.   No matter what they call it, Trump and Republicans betrayed working families.   And that can't be rebranded. www.politico.com/live-updates...

Trump is attempting more ILLEGAL cuts to government investments, trying to push Congress to the side entirely. This is a brazen attempt to steal Congress's power to be YOUR voice on taxpayer spending. Trump does NOT have a line-item veto, much less a retroactive one.

🚨Merkley Blasts Trump Administration for Invoking Illegal Maneuver to Claw Back Bipartisan, Congressionally Appropriated Foreign Aid   www.budget.senate.gov/ranking-memb...

A “pocket rescission” is the President canceling a funding law without Congress changing the law. We live in a republic, not a dictatorship, so this is unconstitutional. Stop the dictatorship. Join the resistance.

No matter what Trump calls it—cancelling funding that Congress has approved is ILLEGAL.   Here is how Trump's unconstitutional "Pocket Rescission" hurts hardworking families. ⬇️

In Republicans’ efforts to build the “GOLDEN AGE” of America, they voted to strip millions of their health care & hike energy costs – all while the price of everyday goods soar. Let’s be honest, the only people experiencing the “GOLDEN AGE” under this regime are billionaires.

What the hell is a “Pocket Rescission”? Ranking Member @merkley.senate.gov explains how the Trump Administration may use this illegal tactic to repeal funds Congress has already approved, putting families at risk across the country.

Trump's Big, Betrayal of a Bill, plus his disastrous tariffs, will make 90% of families worse off through higher prices and slashed programs.    His entire economic plan is families lose, billionaires win.   See for yourself. ⬇️ budgetlab.yale.edu/research/com...

🚨New CBO Analysis Confirms Republicans’ Big Ugly Law Steals from the Poor, Gives to the Ultra-Rich   Statement from Ranking Member @merkley.senate.gov, @schumer.senate.gov, @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social, and Rep. Boyle here: www.budget.senate.gov/ranking-memb...

Ranking Member @merkley.senate.gov and @democrats.senate.gov are fighting like hell to reverse the Republicans’ devastating cuts to rural health care in their Big, Ugly Betrayal of a bill.

Trump said over and over again that he wouldn’t touch Social Security, but his Big, Betrayal of a bill is running the Trust Fund dry. Workers will see their hard-earned benefits depleted while Trump hands another tax break to billionaires.

NEW: Ranking Member @merkley.senate.gov's Statement on GAO Determination That Trump Administration Violated the Impoundment Control Act by Withholding NIH Grant Funding: www.budget.senate.gov/ranking-memb...

💰CBO Tells Ranking Member @merkley.senate.gov: When Including Interest and Assuming Temporary Tax Provisions Are Made Permanent, “One Big, Beautiful Bill” Adds $5 Trillion to Debt   www.budget.senate.gov/ranking-memb...

Aaaand Trump fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics because the agency reported out his REAL jobs numbers.

🚨Alarming news buried in Trump's July Jobs Report: The Administration had to substantially revise down previous gains, showing weaker economic growth than previously reported. May: 144,000, actually 19,000 June: 147,000, actually 14,000 Trump’s policies kill jobs.

Trump has failed to secure his so-called “90 Deals in 90 Days,” but the harm is already done for families who are beginning to pay higher prices because of his tariff chaos.

🚨GAO Finds Trump Administration Again Violated the Impoundment Control Act   Ranking Member Merkley: “Donald Trump is not a king, and Congressional Republicans must start holding him and his administration accountable for not following the law.” www.budget.senate.gov/ranking-memb...

Every move Trump makes is to cut benefits for families and give money to billionaires, like privatizing social security. Imagine your social security trust fund is invested in stocks; the market crashes; social security payments are cut in half leaving you in crisis. BAD IDEA.

Trump’s new tariffs kick in on August 1st and families will be paying the price. Higher costs on imports mean higher prices on everyday goods. Trump’s tariffs are a tax on all of us.

WATCH THIS: Trump keeps touting the tax cuts in his "One Big, Beautiful Bill," but he leaves out the fact that it's only beautiful for BILLIONAIRES. Creator: WeMakeJets

Six months into Donald Trump's presidency and parents are having to choose between taking out a loan or letting their families go hungry just so they can buy school supplies

Trump promised to bring down costs. But in every corner of Virginia, I hear about rising prices. Trump's tariffs are making groceries more expensive, and the recent cuts to nutrition assistance he signed into law will only make it harder for working families to make ends meet.

Republicans voted to rip health care and food assistance away from millions of people and to ADD $3.4 TRILLION to the debt, all so their billionaire buddies could get a massive tax break. It’s just shameful!

Trump’s tax breaks for working people on things like tips and overtime disappear after just 3 years. But his tax breaks for the ultra-wealthy? Those never expire.

Trump’s Economic Plan: tax breaks for rich tech execs financed by cuts to Medicaid for millions of hardworking families. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Trump’s cuts to Medicaid are already forcing rural hospital cuts and closures! Sadly, this is just the beginning.

NEW: @senjeffmerkley.bsky.social, @congressmanboyle.bsky.social, @durbin.senate.gov, and @kaine.senate.gov introduced legislation to prevent future debt ceiling hostage taking ⬇️ www.budget.senate.gov/ranking-memb...

🚨 @senjeffmerkley.bsky.social's Statement on GAO’s Determination Showing the Trump Administration Again Violated the Impoundment Control Act by Withholding Funding for Head Start www.budget.senate.gov/ranking-memb...

Republican cuts eliminated between 6 to 9 BILLION meals for hungry Americans every year. A food bank worker in Texas says: “There’s no amount of philanthropy that can make up for the size of the SNAP cuts.” Is this what Making America Healthy Again looks like?