Patty Murray: “I fully funded the President's $23 million requests in the FY '24 bill to expand VA's childcare pilot program that we…”

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.

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.

Cracking down on fentanyl trafficking, countering Putin, protecting Americans from global health threats—these are priorities just about everyone supports.