Jeanne Shaheen: “For the moment, we are in a crisis situation, and we have to put out the flames.”

We write regarding the Department of Defense’s failure to provide the American people with basic information about the war with Iran and its cost to taxpayers, even as the human costs of this war rise.

The fact is, again, the president is looking for a scapegoat because he's in trouble with the American people because he's not done what he promised to do.

Despite asking for tens of billions of additional taxpayer dollars, you have so far failed to provide basic information on how this money has and will be spent.

Congress explicitly banned Russian energy imports in 2022 to prevent American dollars from financing Putin’s brutal war against Ukraine.