WASHINGTON, July 14 -- 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 (https://www.jec.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/democrats/press-releases?ID=5AB1DEB8-2D06-4D17-8208-B74EB1549B9B) 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...