WASHINGTON, July 29 -- Sen. Dick Durbin issued the following press release:
WASHINGTON - U.S. Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), a member of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense, today delivered a rebuke of the Trump Administration's excessive supplemental funding request to bankroll the President's war of choice in Iran. During his remarks, Durbin reiterated that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and President Trump have failed to provide any concrete plan of action for ending the war in Iran, yet, with more than $75 billion in unspent money allocated to the Pentagon, they have requested another $88 billion in supplemental funding, which includes $67 billion for the Department of Defense (DOD) to fund this questionable w...