Patty Murray: “I believe that over the years, VA's budgets have pretty much been matched or exceeded by Congressional appropriators.”

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.

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

“Today’s ruling is an important victory for the rule of law and the people in Western Washington who deserve a U.S. attorney that answers to the law, not Donald Trump,”

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