WASHINGTON, July 24 -- Sen. Richard Blumenthal issued text of the following press release:
[WASHINGTON, D.C.] - Today, U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations (PSI), delivered an opening statement at a public forum on Donald Trump's wasteful spending on his vanity projects throughout the nation's capital, including the White House ballroom, Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, Triumphal Arch, and renaming of the Kennedy Center. Blumenthal convened the forum alongside U.S. Representative Robert Garcia (D-CA), Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
The forum, "Monumental Waste: How Donald Trump Is Spending Millions Destroying American ...