Wyden Statement Following Finance Committee Vote on Bisignano Nomination to Lead Social Security
Washington, D.C. — Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today issued the following statement after the committee voted off the Senate floor on the nomination of Frank Bisignano to be the commissioner of Social Security. The vote was 14-13, a party line.
“By moving ahead with this vote, the Republican majority is sending a simple message to whistleblowers: put your whistles away,” Wyden said. “This level of disregard for whistleblower protection is unprecedented in the modern era of the Finance Committee. As the co-chair of the Whistleblower Caucus, along with former-Chairman Chuck Grassley, I am disturbed that the majority is unwilling to exercise its own judgement and work on a bipartisan basis to verify whether a nominee lied to the Finance Committee. Social Security is too important to Americans to stand by and do nothing while the Senate’s advice and consent role is thrown in the dust bin.”
At the Finance Committee’s confirmation for Bisignano, Wyden asked the nominee to respond to a letter from a former senior official at Social Security alleging Bisignano was intimately involved in agency activities, including consulting with DOGE officials and rushing through the onboarding process for Akash Bobba, disregarding privacy laws and other safeguards raised by career employees at Social Security.
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