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DelBene, Dexter Introduce Legislation to Stop Future Capture, Breeding of Whales for Public Display

Today, Congresswomen Suzan DelBene (WA-01) and Maxine Dexter, M.D. (OR-03) reintroduced the Strengthening Welfare in Marine Settings (SWIMS) Act, legislation that would end the future capture and breeding of whales for public display. Certain cetaceans, such as orcas, beluga whales, pilot whales, and false killer whale...

DelBene Responds to White House Suspending Microsoft Workers from Permanent Resident Program

Today, Congresswoman Suzan DelBene (WA-01) issued the following statement on the Trump administration suspending Microsoft, Adobe, and other companies from the Permanent Labor Certification (PERM) program. “The Trump administration’s action today is an attack on current H-1B visa holders already in the United States. H...

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...

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...

You Deserve to Know the Truth About Trump’s AI Experiment in WA

How Congress Can Lower Costs and Support Working Families

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