I believe in the groundbreaking concept that a full day’s work should entitle you to a living wage. Proud to be leading the effort for a $25 federal minimum wage with @chrismurphyct.bsky.social.

Two issues with this: 1. Black's own attorneys told my investigators that Epstein's advice was shoddy at best and often needed double checking. 2. Black paid Epstein astronomically more than his other world-class tax advisors. Why was he paying Epstein like the CEO of a Fortune 100 company?

NEWS: Wyden, Cloud Secure Major Privacy Victory as ATF Cancels Warrantless Location Data Contract

Massive win for data privacy this morning

“Democrats want to give a fair shake to people on traditional Medicare,” Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) tells KFF Health News of his plan to try to cap beneficiaries’ spending in the program. kffhealthnews.org/medicare/med...

“This country is capable of having both security and liberty. The two are not mutually exclusive.” prospect.org?p=140150

Oregon's Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley are among the lawmakers demanding answers about why national park fees are funding D.C. projects.

A $10 million procurement reviewed by 404 Media indicates ICE is buying records related to immigrants’ tax identifiers. “It looks for all the world like Trump is trying to skirt the law and a court order to fuel his mass-deportation campaign,” Senator Ron Wyden said.

This is a big sleeper issue. Nitazenes are the next wave of the opioid crisis, and the Trump administration has been undermining and defunding the federal programs that study, prepare for and respond to emerging drug threats. I’ve been leading the charge on this to mobilize a federal response.

US troops are dead and gas prices are sky high. The Trump administration wants you to believe that Iran having nukes is a good thing to distract from Trump's colossal failure of a war

@hcrichardson.bsky.social "One of the few Democrats to raise the alarm was Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon, then-chair of the Senate Finance Committee, who attempted to pierce Affinity’s veil of secrecy once it became clear that Trump would be the Republican nominee" www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Gutting $1 trillion from Medicaid wasn’t enough to appease the greedy billionaires. Now, Republicans are coming for our Social Security and Medicare. @wyden.senate.gov

It doesn’t matter who’s in charge. FISA 702 can’t be renewed without real reforms. Case in point: Trump’s latest nominee for director of national intelligence was peddling election conspiracies just a few days ago.

Republicans just blocked a five week FISA extension in order to cover up ongoing FISA abuses

Ron Wyden tells of ‘grave concerns’ over plan, first revealed by Guardian, to hold families at sprawling Louisiana facility

An update on where things stand on FISA: Early Friday morning, we successfully defeated a bill in the Senate to rubber-stamp the Trump administration's authority to spy on Americans without a warrant. This is a big win on privacy.

Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR), "..warned that Pulte could use Section 702 as a political weapon, abusing surveillance powers for purposes of blackmail, smear campaigns, or attacks on lawmakers, nonprofits, or activists."

Sen. Wyden: As of now, every American is subject to audit except for Trump and his family.

SEN. WYDEN: “Trump has set the new high water mark for public corruption… everybody in 🇺🇸 is subject to IRS audit except the Trumps. I take it as an admission of his own guilt when it comes to tax cheating. Trumps have stuffed every dollar they can into their pockets.”

“The most brazen abuse of power ever.” SEN. WYDEN grills BESSENT on Trump giving himself and his family immunity to cheat on their taxes. A “scam” and an admission of guilt.

“Every American is subject to audit except Donald Trump and his family. I think that’s absurd.” Senator @wyden.senate.gov confronts Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Trump’s corrupt IRS deal to give his family immunity from tax audits. WATCH:

Bill Pulte appears to be unburdened by intelligence or any semblance of ethics. His appointment at ODNI is one more reason every single Democrat should vote against rubber stamping the Trump administration's FISA Section 702 spying powers.

I won't trust this until there's detail on paper about dropping it permanently. Don't forget the settlement also let Trump and his entire family off the hook for any tax crimes they've committed. That needs to go too.

Incredible quote from Wyden, that it is time to "start treating the adtech industry as a national security threat."

Called this back in October

most corrupt administration in history

🔥BRAVO to Senator Ron Wyden & 19 Senate Democrats introducing a resolution to invoke the Congressional Review Act & END an experiment from Trump Admin (OZ😡) ALLOWING AI to conduct PRIOR AUTHORIZATION & PROFIT from DENYING medical claims in Traditional Medicare. www.finance.senate.gov/ranking-memb...

My team uncovered that foreign enemies are targeting U.S. servicemembers in war zones by buying their location data. The threat to national security posed by data brokers has never been more clear. We need to dismantle the surveillance advertising industry.

@wyden.senate.gov and I had the honor of presenting Lieutenant Colonel David Gauntlett a Bronze Star with a V. During his service in Vietnam, he manned a radio Jeep and was the only source of communication for air support during an attack. His bravery saved lives.

SWIFT OPPOSITION: There are now House *and* Senate bills to impose 100% tax on payouts from Trump’s $1.8 billion fund for convicted crooks Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) & Ron Wyden (D-OR) have just introduced their version Rep. Mike Thompson (D-CA) already has bill in House

Correct

They're stealing billions of your money to pay off violent right-wing psychos while doing everything in their power to spike gas up to $5 a gallon, make groceries into a luxury and hand the country over to the oligarchs who want to permanently replace you.

A bipartisan coalition of lawmakers has introduced legislation that would make it harder for federal investigators to obtain phone records and also would prevent the government from weaponizing a secretive legal instrument it has used to target critics.

We reported that he was thinking about it, and yep, he went for it. "What is Trump hiding from the American people?” says @warren.senate.gov. “Democrats are going to fight every element of this self-dealing settlement,” vows Sen. Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov. Wow, even some Republicans seem uneasy.

Sen. Wyden keeps getting under the skin of the NSA’s biggest supporters with his warnings about intelligence agency abuses— and the latest dispute resulted in a high-profile dustup on the Senate floor.

Oregon’s senior U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden said the rhetoric from fire officials tasked with cross-agency coordination was worrying in face of fire season ahead.

Also in this piece: Senator Ron Wyden tells me Dems will pursue testimony from the Treasury official who resigned after Trump's $1.8 billion slush fund was announced:

Donald Trump is letting AI deny care for seniors on Medicare. If there's a way to make your life worse and more expensive than it is today, he'll do it. I'm leading the charge to make sure this plan dies the death it deserves.

NEWS: Wyden, Senate Democrats Take Action to Roll Back Trump AI Care Denial Experiment on Seniors

Let's make billionaires pay their fair share and find out

The costs, chaos and corruption continues, therefore the list continues. Today, @wyden.senate.gov and I released the latest update on RFK Jr.'s harmful actions.

We're at war in Iran. Inflation is rising. It costs $100 to fill your gas tank. Energy, housing and health care costs are skyrocketing, and Trump won't stop yapping about his ballroom.

Trump deserves no credit for dropping this lawsuit. He's doing it to set up a $1.7 billion slush fund for right-wing political violence. If Trump follows through, it will be the most brazen theft of taxpayer dollars by any president in history.

Ahead of Fire Season, @wyden.senate.gov Sounds Alarm on Trump Administration's Hazardous Fuels Backlog www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOjk...

This is "among the most corrupt acts in American political history...a shakedown of the American people by a crook president and his crook lawyers,” says Sen. Ron @wyden.senate.gov. "Trump is a parasite on the American republic.” Why is Wyden this outraged? Click below. I will explain everything.

From @wyden.senate.gov, who is not a fan of this idea:

Last weekend's first every Bike to Books Family ride rocked!! This awesome group of kids and adults rode from Woodstock Library to Sellwood Library; looking at bike lane art along the way! We even had a surprise encounter with Senator Ron Wyden (@wyden.senate.gov)! @multcolib.bsky.social

This ruling amounts to a nationwide abortion ban. Mifepristone is safe, full stop. This isn’t about science and protecting women, it’s a calculated plot by Republicans obsessed with controlling the private health care decisions of women in America.

They’ll argue about budgets while women miss cancer screenings. They’ll call it policy while clinics close in the places that need them most. This isn’t abstract. Ron Wyden just made that real on the Senate floor.

"It sure feels like the other side of the aisle is covering the abuses up,” Wyden said.