Patty Murray: “I think that is incredibly alarming.”

The pocket rescission represented the theft from the American people, plain and simple.

We are long past the days of public hangings in the town square.

This policy is indefensible. The Department must immediately abandon this approach and administer appropriated funds in full alignment with both the law and the needs of the communities that rely on these programs.

We should not have to remind you that using government funding to create or air political ads like the ones that have been running over the last few days is illegal and a shockingly corrupt misuse of taxpayer dollars.