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DelBene Moves to Force Trump Administration to Release Files on AI Medicare Experiment

Today, Congresswoman Suzan DelBene (WA-01) announced that she is filing a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to force the Trump administration to release unseen information on the Wasteful and Inappropriate Service Reduction (WISeR) program, which pays private companies to use AI to review Medicare claims. Since...

WA Delegation Supports Governor’s Request for Major Disaster Declaration for Individual Assistance for Devastating Wildfires in Washington State?

Today, Congresswoman Suzan DelBene (WA-0) joined Washington state’s entire Congressional delegation in a letter to President Donald Trump urging him to approve Governor Bob Ferguson’s request for a Major Disaster Declaration for Individual Assistance to help families recover and repair damage due to the devastating wil...

New K-12 Education Package Would Better Support Students, Families, Teachers

Today, Congresswoman Suzan DelBene (WA-01) cosponsored the introduction of the Transforming Education for the Future Act, a comprehensive legislative package authored by Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici (OR-01) to modernize and strengthen K-12 education to help our kids have a brighter future. The American education syst...

Rep. Suzan DelBene: Trump’s AI experiment is coming for seniors’ cancer treatments

When Health & Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. sat before me during a Ways & Means Committee hearing in April, I shared the story of Joanne, a Washington senior on Medicare who had been lingering in crippling pain for weeks while she waited for approval for a common pain treatment. Her delay was the dire...

Medicare’s Plan to Expand AI Program Criticized as Overreach

Recently released federal documents show the Trump administration planned an expansion of an AI-driven Medicare prior authorization program to millions more patients nationwide, drawing concern after early data from the pilot points to delays in care. Internal communications from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Ser...

House Passes Bill Letting Taxpayer Advocate Fight for You in Federal Court

The U.S. House of Representatives approved a bipartisan measure Tuesday that would give the National Taxpayer Advocate a new court-related authority: seeking to participate as a friend of the court in federal tax cases involving issues that could affect large numbers of taxpayers. The bill passed under suspension of th...

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How Congress Can Lower Costs and Support Working Families

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