Pregnant women not able to get the maternity care they need. Folks facing skyrocketing premiums. 15 million people kicked off their health care. This is Trump’s health care crisis, and Republicans would rather shut down the government than fix the mess they made.

Good to see Rigoberto Hernandez Hernandez released from ICE custody and reunited with his loved ones after being snatched off the frontlines of fighting the Bear Gulch Fire. Rigoberto’s arrest never should have happened, and I’ll work to hold the Trump Administration accountable.

Democrats think the American people deserve health care. Republicans would rather shut down the government than lower health care costs.

Pretty rich for someone using his office to grift and running multiple crypto cons to call SETTLED SCIENCE the “greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world.” Trump’s lying and profiting as he’s killing the planet. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/c...

Make no mistake: Jimmy Kimmel will be back on the air because people across the country got loud about censorship. Disney isn’t the hero here—people of strong conscience are. Never forget the power of your voice, especially as Trump pushes us further into authoritarianism.

In 8 months in office, Trump has made people sicker and poorer. Trump’s tariffs are adding fuel to the fire of higher prices and wages are not keeping up.

No baby should lose health care.   No senior should be kicked out of a nursing home.  No rural hospital should close.   That’s what Donald Trump and Republicans’ budget let’s happen — all to make their billionaire buddies even richer.   Democrats won’t let that stand.

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.

Yanking broadcast licenses from TV outlets because you don’t like what they’re saying is an authoritarian assault on free speech. It’s un-American and just plain wrong. Donald Trump is trampling on the Constitution.

We know that plastics are invading our lives—our food, our water, even our bloodstreams. Now we know that chemicals in plastics are linked to infertility and premature birth. Two more reasons to pass my Break Free from Plastic Pollution Act!

Trump said he’d lower prices on day one. The reality? He’s exploding your grocery budget. This is TRUMPFLATION at work.

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.

This administration is responsible for the most blatant attacks on the free press in American history. What will be left of the First Amendment when he’s done?

Kimmel. Colbert. Suits against the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and 60 Minutes. Extorting settlements from CBS, ABC, and others. Blocking the AP's access to the White House. 🧵

Oregon Sen. Merkley wants the U.S. to push for a two-state solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict by recognizing Palestine as its own state alongside Israel. https://www.koin.com/news/oregon/oregon-merkley-urges-us-senate-trump-recognize-palestine-state-israel/?cid=bluesky_ 

I’m leading the first-ever Senate resolution in support of Palestinian statehood. There is only one pathway that builds security, peace, and prosperity for Israelis and Palestinians. That path is two states for two peoples.

This is how we slide into an authoritarian strongman state: using a government agency to stifle freedom of speech and voices of dissent.

Billionaire health insurance companies are buying up clinics across the country—using sick patients to turn healthy profits and raising costs for you and your family. HELL NO! We need to pass my Patients Over Profits Act to put patients first.

On Constitution Day, we recognize the single biggest threat to the Constitution: Donald Trump. As Trump tramples on due process, erodes Congress’s power of the purse, and forces us into an authoritarian strongman state, I am fighting back to protect our constitutional freedoms.

The American people have been clear: they want to release the Epstein Files and to finally get justice for Epstein’s victims. Republicans BLOCKED a Senate amendment to do just that—they blocked transparency!

Trump’s crusade against science continues by slashing crucial funding for pediatric cancer research. There is just no excuse for leaving families out in the cold like this. We need to restore NIH funding, NOW.

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

TRUMPFLATION is hitting health care, quite possibly “the sharpest increases in medical costs” in 15 years. The Trump agenda: Families lose; Billionaires win.

Today is National Voter Registration Day! I’m fighting in the Senate to protect the freedom of every eligible voter to make their voice heard in the face of unrelenting attacks from Trump and Republicans. Visit vote.gov to make sure you’re registered to vote.

As Trump and MAGA extremists across the country continue to attack our freedom to vote, I will fight to protect and expand vote by mail—a secure and simple system to help folks have their voices heard at the ballot box.

We need to end U.S. complicity in ethnic cleansing, starvation, and displacement in Gaza.

Gutting Planned Parenthood funding means it’ll be harder to patients to access the care they need, from breast cancer screenings to annual checkups, to reproductive care. All to bend the knee to Trump and MAGA extremists.

Republicans AGAIN blocked the release of the Epstein Files. Democrats voted to release the files. Republicans blocked justice and accountability for Epstein’s victims and transparency for the American people.

Here’s the message from Trump and Burgum:   A GREEN LIGHT to sell off our public lands to industry. A RED LIGHT to anyone who cares about safeguarding our natural treasures for future generations.   HELL NO!

This sums it up: “No president in U.S. history has used his position of power to profit as immensely as Trump.” Trump’s massive corruption is on full display: lining his pockets by the billions as he slashes your health care and raises your bills.

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

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.

My trip to Israel, the West Bank, Jordan, and Egypt with @vanhollen.senate.gov made clear that the Netanyahu government is pursuing a strategy of forced displacement by reducing homes to rubble and more deprivation of food, water, and medicine.

🚨@merkley.senate.gov and I just released our report detailing how the Netanyahu government is engaged in a campaign of ethnic cleansing in Gaza. The U.S. is complicit and the world must stop it. Read it in full here: www.vanhollen.senate.gov/download/van...

Today @merkley.senate.gov and I released a report on our recent trip to the Middle East. Our inescapable conclusion: the Netanyahu government is engaged in a campaign of ethnic cleansing in Gaza. Tune in as we discuss what we saw and where we go from here:

We will never be able to repay our debt to the firefighters and first responders who ran toward danger on September 11, 2001. Today, we reflect on those we lost that day and in the 24 years since and grieve with all those feeling the deep pain of loss.

The Trump family raked in $5,000,000,000 from its crypto con last week. This is CORRUPTION on full display—and it’s why I wrote the End Crypto Corruption Act. NO WAY should elected officials and their families be profiting from crypto schemes.

Mail-in voting is safe, simple, and popular—1 in 3 voters cast their ballot by mail. In the face of Trump’s attacks on our freedom to vote, I will continue fighting to protect and expand access to voting by mail!

Jimmy Lai’s imprisonment is a grave injustice. The U.S. must do all it can to secure his release, and I will continue standing with all those fighting for their fundamental freedoms in Hong Kong. Free Jimmy Lai!

MAGA extremists on the Supreme Court sided with wannabe-dictator Trump to trample on our Constitutional freedoms. This is a dangerous and shameful decision that pushes us further into an authoritarian strongman state.

Release the Epstein Files. NOW.

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.

Voting by mail is convenient, secure, and helps counter attempts to corrupt Election Day—like understaffing voting centers in certain precincts—designed to obstruct voting in targeted communities. Trump’s plan to kill vote by mail is a power grab, plain and simple. HELL NO!

@wyden.senate.gov, @repdexteror.bsky.social, and I have a message for Trump and MAGA extremists trying to end vote by mail: HELL NO!

Why stop there? Let’s rename all Depts after what Trump is inflicting on America. Dept of HHS -> Dept of Hepatitis and Human Suffering Dept of VA -> Dept of Veteran Abandonment Dept of Education -> Dept of Erasure of History Dept of Commerce -> Dept of Corruption Just a start.

Wright is Wrong. Climate change denier Chris Wright knows science is not on his side, so he’s taking a page out of Big Tobacco’s book: handpick phony researchers and cherry-pick data....all to fit Trump’s planet-killing agenda. Sloppy and destructive.

Republicans in Congress passed a Big, Ugly BETRAYAL that rolls out the red carpet for the privileged and powerful and rolls in the red tape for everyone else. I was in Eugene to talk about the impacts for Oregonians.

Powerful men abused and exploited underage girls, and the Trump Administration is trying to cover it up. We need to pass @lujan.senate.gov’s and my Epstein Files Transparency Act NOW to release the files!

A new name is not going to fix ripping health care away from 15 MILLION people to fund tax breaks for billionaires and billionaire corporations.

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...