WASHINGTON, July 16 -- Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand issued the following press release:
Today, U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), a member of the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee, demanded accountability from the Pentagon on President Trump's requested $350 billion in taxpayer dollars as a slush fund for his administration on top of the defense budget and $67.1 billion to pay for his reckless war in Iran. The funding requests follow Americans spending over $56 billion more on gas because of the war, with New Yorkers spending over $2.2 billion more to fill up their tanks.
"New Yorkers do not want to give billions more of their hard-earned dollars to fund President Trump's chaotic, illegal, and unnecessary war that he has no idea how to...