Patty Murray: “The transportation budget has a real impact on real people, people who are struggling in these tough economic times”

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.

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.

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