NEW STUDY: TRUMP VANITY PROJECTS SLATED TO COST $1.8+ BILLION

WASHINGTON, Sept. 25 -- Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand issued the following press release:

JEC Report: Cost Of Vanity Projects Could Cover 600 Million School Lunches, Medical Expenditures For More Than 88,000 Veterans For One Year, Or Hiring Of Nearly 30,000 Schoolteachers Or Firefighters

This week, the Joint Economic Committee (JEC) - Minority issued a new report with calculations that find that President Trump's vanity projects - including construction of the new White House ballroom and the no-bid contract to paint the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, among others - are expected to cost more than $1.8 billion. Using this total, the Committee created an Interactive Cost Calculator where users can explore how this $1.8 billion could instead be...