WASHINGTON, May 20 -- Sen. Patty Murray issued the following press release:
Today, at the Senate Budget Committee's markup (https://www.budget.senate.gov/hearings/executive-business-meeting-to-report-the-reconciliation-bill-pursuant-to-sconres33) of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs portion of Republicans' bill to send $70 billion more to ICE and Border Patrol while funding Trump's golden ballroom, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Vice Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee and a senior member and former Chair of the Senate Budget Committee, emphasized in opening comments that the bill Senate Republicans have put forth is a betrayal of Americans across the nation. Senator Murray underscored that Congress' focus should b...