Patty Murray: “If change is starting to happen, we certainly want to protect that progress and encourage more.”

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

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.

While Trump spends tax dollars on ads promoting himself, Congress needs to reassert its powers to help people, and it’s past time Republicans join us in that fight.

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