Senate Budget Committee

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.

Merkley Leads Senate Budget Democrats in Demanding Hegseth Explain Reasoning for Fully Classifying Spending Plans of $90 Billion in Big, Ugly Betrayal Law, Preventing Congressional Oversight | U.S. Se... The Official U.S. Senate Committee On The Budget

Read the full letter signed by @merkley.senate.gov, @vanhollen.senate.gov, @whitehouse.senate.gov, @padilla.senate.gov, @murray.senate.gov, @lujan.senate.gov, @wyden.senate.gov, @kaine.senate.gov, @markwarner.bsky.social, and @sanders.senate.gov here: www.budget.senate.gov/ranking-memb...

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.

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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.

Merkley Leads Budget Democrats in Demanding OMB Director Vought Provide Answers on Use of His $100 Million Slush Fund | U.S. Senate Committee On The Budget The Official U.S. Senate Committee On The Budget

Read more here: www.budget.senate.gov/ranking-memb...

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.

Push to Audit Private Equity and Venture Capital Falters Under Trump

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...

CBO Projects Inflation to Remain High, Labor Market to be Weaker Due to Trump Administration Policies | U.S. Senate Committee On The Budget The Official U.S. Senate Committee On The Budget

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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.

US may subsidize oil companies to rebuild Venezuela's energy infrastructure, Trump says The United States may subsidize oil companies to enable them to rebuild Venezuela's energy infrastructure, President Donald Trump said in an interview with NBC News on Monday.

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.
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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.