WASHINGTON, May 14 -- Sen. Richard Blumenthal issued text of the following press release:
U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), a member of the Senate Judiciary and Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Committees, today announced that he intends to file amendments that would enact strict oversight over President Trump's ballroom project in anticipation of scheduled committee markups of Republicans' reconciliation package. Republicans' reconciliation package includes $1 billion in taxpayer funds for President Trump's pet project to be spent on top of the hundreds of millions of dollars the Trump Administration raised from private donors-many of whom have been kept secret by the White House.
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