Press Releases
Warren Asks Defense Contractors to Explain Lobbying for Tax Breaks in “Big, Beautiful Bill” at Expense of American Families
Washington, D.C. — U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), a member of the Senate Finance and Senate Armed Services Committees, wrote to Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin, RTX Corporation, and General Dynamics, pressing them to explain their lobbying for retroactive tax breaks in Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” at the expense of working families—while already raking in huge profits. In President Trump’s 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA), Congressional Republicans changed the Research and … Continue Reading
June 30, 2025
Warren Asks Congressional Tax Committee to Investigate True Size of Retroactive Tax Breaks for Billionaire Corporations
Washington, D.C. — U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), a member of the Senate Finance Committee, wrote to the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT), a nonpartisan Congressional committee dedicated to analyzing tax legislation, asking the committee to provide information on the revenue impact of giving billionaire corporations retroactive tax breaks. The 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, amidst a slew of giveaways to the wealthy and big corporations, ended corporations’ ability to immediately … Continue Reading
June 30, 2025
ICYMI: On Senate Floor, Senator Warren Calls On Republicans to Look Sick Kids in the Eyes As They Vote to Rip Health Care Away From 17 Million Americans
Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) delivered remarks on the floor of the U.S. Senate, calling out her Republican colleagues for trying to pass their “Big Beautiful Bill,” which will rip health care away from 17 million Americans, slash food assistance, and raise costs for families. Remarks from Senator Elizabeth WarrenAs prepared for deliveryJune 29, 2025 On Friday, I met Vivian. Vivian is an 11-year-old kid from Winston-Salem, North Carolina. She likes school. She … Continue Reading
June 27, 2025
Warren, Collins, 44 Senators Team Up on Bill to Fight for Tax Equality for Married LGBTQ+ Couples
Washington, D.C. - On the ten-year anniversary of Obergefell v. Hodges, which recognized a constitutional right to same-sex marriage, and the twelve-year anniversary of U.S. v. Windsor, which struck down as unconstitutional the federal definition of marriage as between one man and one woman, U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Susan Collins (R-Maine) led the reintroduction of the bipartisan Refund Equality Act to ensure that married same-sex couples can amend their tax returns back … Continue Reading
June 27, 2025
Warren, Garcia Renew Fight to Limit Flow of Ammunition Into American Communities
Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Representative Robert Garcia (D-Calif.) reintroduced the Ammunition Modernization and Monitoring Oversight (AMMO) Act, legislation that would restrict bulk sales of ammunition, require businesses that sell ammunition to obtain the same federal license as firearm dealers, and require businesses to conduct a background check on ammunition buyers. Currently, businesses are not required to possess licenses to sell ammunition and … Continue Reading
June 26, 2025
Warren, Schumer, Wyden, Whitehouse Demand Explanation from Big Oil Corporations Lobbying for Giveaways at Expense of American Families
Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), Ranking Member of the Senate Environmental Public Works Committee, and Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), Senate Minority Leader, pushed Big Oil companies ConocoPhillips and Ovintiv Inc. (Ovintiv) on their companies’ lobbying efforts to win a $1.1 billion tax loophole in President Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill,” leaving middle-class families stuck … Continue Reading
June 26, 2025
Warren, Senators Urge Trump Admin to Protect Workers, Expand Access to Overtime Pay
Washington, D.C. — U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) led members of the Senate Democratic Caucus in writing to the Secretary of the Department of Labor (DoL), Lori Chavez-DeRemer, urging the department to preserve President Biden’s expansion of the overtime threshold. Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Senators Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.), Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), Cory Booker (D-N.J.), Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.), Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Ed Markey (D-Mass.), Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), … Continue Reading
June 26, 2025
New Warren Report: “Bad Medicine: RFK Jr.’s Dirty Dozen Antivax Attacks”
Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) published a new report entitled "Bad Medicine: RFK Jr.'s Dirty Dozen Antivax Attacks," underscoring the key ways Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. (RFK Jr.) has undermined vaccine access and confidence in vaccines and jeopardized Americans' health. The report was published during the first meeting of the new Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), which RFK Jr. gutted and … Continue Reading
June 26, 2025
Warren, Markey, MA Leaders Sound Alarm on Inhumane Conditions at Burlington ICE Field Office, ICE Attempts to Undermine Transparency
Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Ed Markey (D-Mass.) led the entire Massachusetts Congressional delegation in writing to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Acting Director Todd Lyons and ICE ERO Boston Acting Field Office Director Patricia Hyde, pressing them on whether ICE has been violating agency standards by holding detainees in inhumane conditions at a local processing facility in Burlington, Massachusetts. The lawmakers also warned of the damage … Continue Reading
June 26, 2025
New War Room Investigation Reveals Trump Admin Dishonesty About Social Security Call Wait Times
Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) published a new Social Security War Room report revealing that Social Security Administration (SSA) officials, including Commissioner Frank Bisignano, appear to be making false claims about call wait times for the agency’s national helpline. Senator Warren sent a letter to Bisignano with her findings, pressing him on his apparent efforts to mislead the American public. During his Senate confirmation hearing, Frank Bisignano stated … Continue Reading
June 25, 2025
ICYMI: Warren Raises Concerns On Risks of Endless War Against Iran, Presses Commander Nominee for Answers on Military Preparations
Washington, D.C. - At a hearing of the Senate Armed Services Committee, U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) expressed her concerns to Vice Admiral Charles B. Cooper II, nominee for Commander of United States Central Command (CENTCOM), regarding President Trump’s dragging the United States into a war with Iran without Congressional approval. On June 21, President Trump ordered strikes against three nuclear facilities in Iran, warning that there were "many targets left to strike" and … Continue Reading
June 25, 2025
ICYMI: Berkshire Eagle Highlights Warren, Massachusetts Constituent’s Renewed Fight to Prevent Trump, Republicans’ Proposed Cuts to Health Care
Washington, D.C. — In a new article on Senator Warren’s leadership in the fight to protect Medicaid, the Berkshire Eagle highlighted the story of Liam Barry, who wrote a letter in 2017 to President Donald Trump urging him not to repeal the Affordable Care Act, which helped his mother access life-saving care. Eight years later, Barry is reiterating his plea, as Congressional Republicans propose major cuts to Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act that would kick at least 16 million people off of … Continue Reading
June 24, 2025
ICYMI: In Floor Speech, Warren Slams Trump’s War in Iran, Exposes 10 Ways Big Beautiful Bill Increases Costs
Washington, D.C. — In a speech on the floor of the U.S. Senate, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) underscored the recklessness of President Trump’s decision to bomb Iran and highlighted ten ways Republicans’ ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ raise costs for American families. “We all agree that Iran should not and cannot have a nuclear weapon…But the only successful strategy for preventing Iran from developing a nuclear weapon is diplomacy, something Trump had been pursuing right up until Netanyahu … Continue Reading
June 24, 2025
After Pressure From Social Security War Room, SSA Confirms Has Not Recategorized Employees as “Schedule F”
Washington, D.C. - In a response to a recent letter from U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), Commissioner of the Social Security Administration (SSA) Frank Bisignano confirmed that SSA has not yet reclassified any frontline SSA workers as Schedule F policy-making employees. The confirmation follows pressure from the lawmakers, who sounded the alarm on SSA’s plans to recategorize critical employees, stripping them of their civil service … Continue Reading
June 24, 2025
Warren Slams RFK Jr. For “Reckless” Decision to Fire Vaccine Experts, Presses on New Appointees’ Conflicts of Interest, Anti-Vaccine Views
Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), on the eve of a key committee meeting, slammed Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. (RFK Jr.) for his “reckless” and “shortsighted” decision to fire all 17 independent members of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) and replace them with eight members who appear to be hand-picked to advance RFK Jr.’s own anti-vaccine agenda. … Continue Reading
June 23, 2025
Warren, Doggett Lead Bipartisan Fight to Strengthen Health Care for Veterans and Eliminate Waste
Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), a member of the Senate Finance Committee’s Health Care Subcommittee, and Representative Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas), Ranking Member of the House Ways & Means Health Subcommittee, introduced the bicameral, bipartisan Guarantee Utilization of All Reimbursements for Delivery of (GUARD) Veterans’ Health Care Act, which would close a longstanding loophole that results in taxpayers paying twice for veterans’ health care while private … Continue Reading
June 23, 2025
Warren Releases New Data from Joint Committee on Taxation Revealing That “Pass Through Deduction” is a Giveaway to Millionaires
Washington, D.C. — U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), a member of the Senate Finance Committee, released new data from the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT), a nonpartisan Congressional committee dedicated to analyzing tax legislation, revealing that the majority of the benefit from the 199A tax deduction goes to millionaires. The 199A tax deduction was created by the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, with Congressional Republicans claiming it would support small business owners by allowing … Continue Reading
June 20, 2025
Warren Demands Answers on Trump’s Potential Contract with Shadowy Humanitarian Group, Urges More Aid to Gaza Through Responsible Partners
Washington, D.C. — In a new letter to the Secretary of State and the United States Agency for International Aid (USAID), U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) raised her concerns about the Department of State’s reported plan to give $500 million to the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF). “Reports of deadly violence against starving Palestinians connected with the GHF’s aid network are deeply troubling, as are reports of the organization’s ties to the Israeli government, and the lack of … Continue Reading
June 20, 2025
ICYMI: Warren Gains Commitment from Hegseth to Follow Supreme Court Orders on Deploying Troops to American Cities
Washington, D.C. - At a hearing of the Senate Armed Services Committee, U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) pressed Department of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on her concerns with President Trump’s deployment of the National Guard and U.S. Marines to Los Angeles despite state and local officials’ objections. On June 7, President Trump announced he was deploying the National Guard and the Marines to Los Angeles (L.A.). As of April 2025, the Department of Defense reported there are about … Continue Reading
June 18, 2025
Warren, Duckworth Press RFK Jr. on “Dangerous War on Vaccines,” Reckless Decision to Slash HHS Vaccine Funding
Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) wrote to Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., pressing him on his recent reckless decisions to slash funding for critical vaccine development. In May, the Trump Administration announced that it would cut off millions of dollars that the federal government had committed to the development of the critical bird flu vaccine, and HHS abruptly ended an over-$250 million … Continue Reading