WASHINGTON, May 28 -- Sen. Alex Padilla issued the following press release:
Today, U.S. Senator Alex Padilla (D-Calif.), a member of the Senate Budget Committee, along with Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) and Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), led their Senate colleagues in urging the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) to determine the true cost of war in Iran and set the record straight regarding inaccurate and incomplete estimates provided by the Trump Administration. For Californians already struggling with housing, transportation, and grocery costs, every additional federal dollar spent on this conflict matters.
"The American people deserve to know the true costs of this conflict, and they...