Patty Murray: “Well, if you could tell me precisely how much taxpayer money has gone into lobbying Congress.”

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.

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.

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