WASHINGTON, June 2 -- Sen. Tammy Duckworth issued the following press release:
Today, combat Veteran and U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) grilled U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Donald Trump's Congressional budget request that once again proposes deep cuts to the State Department that would gut our diplomatic capacity and ultimately make Americans less safe. At today's U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee (SFRC) hearing, Duckworth warned against wasting taxpayer dollars on a war of choice while further promoting the Trump Administration's disturbing pattern of using military force as a first resort, which has endangered our servicemembers in the Middle East, tanked America's economy and increased the risk that our adversaries ...