Patty Murray: “Since 2009, the deficit has been cut in half. We need to build on that work, fairly and responsibly.”

These are funds Congress has delivered on a bipartisan basis and should be helping people—not cut off by a president more focused on building a ballroom than investing in families.

This is theft from the American people, plain and simple.

It shouldn’t take public outcry to prevent President Trump and [Office of Management and Budget director] Russ Vought from laying waste to the NIH and defunding lifesaving research because they think it’s ‘woke’ or want to extort a…

Theft from the American people, plain and simple.