WASHINGTON, June 23 -- Sen. Patty Murray issued the following press release:
U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Vice Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, and U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT), Ranking Member of the Homeland Security Subcommittee, wrote (https://www.appropriations.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/260622_letter_to_gao_on_usss_funding_for_ballroompdf.pdf) to the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to request that the government watchdog open an investigation into the Trump administration's decision to divert up to $397 million for President Trump's White House ballroom out of a pot of money provided for the Secret Service in Republicans' "Big Beautiful Bill."
"After President Trump repeatedly promised that 'there's not one...