On Monday’s broadcast of MS NOW’s “The Weeknight,” Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR) stated that the negotiations with Iran prior to the strikes on it “were a cover story.” And “negotiations were going well.” Merkley said, “[W]e were in the middle
On Monday’s broadcast of MS NOW’s “The Weeknight,” Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR) responded to President Donald Trump pointing to Iran attempting to assassinate him by saying that we’re not working “to tackle a planet that’s getting too hot from climate
Sens. Josh Hawley (R-MO) and Jeff Merkley (D-OR) are introducing the Homes for American Families Act to ban Wall Street firms from buying up single-family homes across the United States. During his State of the Union address this week, President Donald Trump urged lawmakers to codify his executive order that does just that.
Friday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR) said President Donald Trump had brought an “authoritarian state structure” to the United States.
Monday on CNN’s “The Source,” Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR) said “so many” Republicans had come over to the Democrats to agree they were right to fight to extend health care subsidies to illegal aliens to reopen the government.
On Monday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Lead,” Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR) said that things in Portland only become confrontational “when the federal agents are starting the confrontation.” And there are “occasional confrontations” the police “can handle like any other occasional
On Thursday’s broadcast of CNN’s “OutFront,” Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR) argued that the government shutdown is the fault of Republicans “because they don’t want to, basically, reverse themselves on these massive cuts to Americans’ health care. So, it’s a Republican
Friday on CNN’s “The Lead,” Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR) said former FBI Director James Comey’s indictment was President Donald Trump implementing an “authoritarian government.”
Taiwan’s proposed budget includes a $32.8 million spending increase for the Department of Latin American and Caribbean Affairs.
Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR) said on Monday on CNN’s “News Central” that, with help from Republicans, President Donald Trump was taking America into a “strongman state.”
Shortly after midnight Friday, “Sen. Jeff Merkley (D.) announced the NFA provision did not comply with the Byrd Rule,” according to The Reload.
On Monday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Source,” Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR) said that American strikes on Iran moved up the timeframe for setting back nuclear Iran’s program, but “Israel had made it very clear that, with or without the United
The Senate Parliamentarian on Saturday ruled that the Big Beautiful Bill’s provisions limiting funding for sanctuary cities and restraining federal courts’ ability to issue preliminary injunctions cannot be included in Trump’s landmark legislation without a 60-vote majority.
On Monday’s broadcast of “CNN News Central,” Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR) stated that we want to be in a “situation where Iran completely abandons, forever, its pursuit of a nuclear weapon. It did, in fact, do that under the agreement
On Monday’s broadcast of “CNN News Central,” Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR) alleged that President Donald Trump is “trying to create riots” and said his handling of Los Angeles is like the handling of Portland in the first Trump administration. Merkley
Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR) said Monday on CNN’s “News Central” that President Donald Trump “promoted” the violent environment that brought the shootings of Minnesota lawmakers over the weekend.
Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR) said Thursday on MSNBC’s “Katy Tur Reports” that Sen. Alex Padilla (D-CA) being forcibly removed by security personnel at Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s news conference is an example of the Trump administration “becoming an authoritarian state.”
On Tuesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “The Weeknight,” Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR) stated that the Trump administration is trying “to make the protests worse, to create, if you will, riots” in Los Angeles. Merkley said, “I was watching what was going
Tuesday, on CNN’s “The Lead,” Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR) said that President Donald Trump is acting like a dictator by “openly selling access and influence.”
Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR) claimed Thursday on CNN’s “OutFront” that President Donald Trump’s second term was “government policy up for sale.”
On Thursday’s broadcast of “CNN News Central,” Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR) stated that the minerals deal between the U.S. and Ukraine appears positive and he appreciates President Donald Trump changing his approach. Merkley said, “Well, what I really like is
Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR) claimed Thursday on CNN’s “New Central” that President Donald Trump is engaged in an unserious “testosterone battle” with China’s President Xi Jinping.
On Tuesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Situation Room,” Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR) said that he celebrates investment coming to the U.S. as a result of the Trump tariff policies and “There’s often a very good case for a carefully crafted tariff
On Friday’s broadcast of “CNN News Central,” Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR) said that “Trump absolutely understands that a shutdown would hurt him” and when there was a government shutdown in 2019, “it created a lot of leverage and power for
Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR) said Thursday on CNN’s “The Arena” that his fellow Democrats need to “take on” President Donald Trump.
Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR) said Tuesday on CNN’s “Out Front” that President Donald Trump was “more in love with dictators than with democracy.”
The Senate shot down three proposals brought forward by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and other Democrat senators to block the sale of artillery and other weapons to Israel.
Sens. Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Jeff Merkley (D-OR) introduced a bill on Thursday that would require the Department of the Treasury to use America’s representatives at international institutions to pressure those entities not to fund slavery around the world, especially Chinese government’s genocidal Uyghur slavery practices.
A bipartisan group of 14 senators is calling on their leaders to restrict TSA’s use of facial recognition technology over privacy concerns.
Journalists, academics, and other experts told Congress during a hearing on Wednesday that evidence indicates China is killing thousands of people to sell their organs and building the “world’s largest DNA database” that can be used to find a living “perfect match” for an organ buyer, arrest them for dubious reasons, and kill them to sell their organs.
On Wednesday’s broadcast of Boston NPR news station WBUR’s “Here and Now,” Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR) responded to claims by Israel that it hasn’t held up aid and Hamas has stolen aid and a question on whether Hamas stealing aid
On Tuesday’s edition of NBC’s “MTP Now,” Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR) predicted that Democrats will react to Republicans opposing the Senate border bill by having “multiple votes” to “keep the border in the news” and to “accentuate the fact that President
On Tuesday’s edition of NBC’s “MTP Now,” Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR) argued that Republicans are opposing the Senate bill that “Democrats certainly would never have written on their own” and that he is unsure if he’ll support because he’s “uncomfortable
On Thursday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports,” Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR) stated that “we really do have to bring to bear the framework here that the Democrats want to implement the Biden plan to solve the problems at the
Republican presidential primary candidate Nikki Haley once seemingly parroted a talking point used by Democrats that suggests climate change is partially to blame for mass immigration to the United States and other countries.
On Thursday’s broadcast of “CNN News Central,” Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR) complained that Republicans responded to President Joe Biden’s border proposals in the supplemental by stating that “now we want to do Steve Miller-style policies to essentially round up people
On Thursday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports,” Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR) stated that U.S. Special Envoy for Middle East Humanitarian Issues David Satterfield told him that Hamas does have tunnels under hospitals, but “when you have a hospital full of
On Thursday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports,” Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR) stated that we’re in a transition away from our policy where “we basically said, the best way we can help Israel towards a future of peace is to
The Congressional-Executive Commission on China heard testimony that Chinese seafood exports to the U.S. are tainted by forced labor.
Canadian MP Michael Chong testified before Congress Tuesday about his experience as the target of a Chinese political interference campaign.
