WASHINGTON, July 24 -- Sen. Alex Padilla issued the following press release:
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Alex Padilla (D-Calif.), a member of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee, alongside Ranking Member of the House Natural Resources Committee Jared Huffman (D-Calif.-02), Senator Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), and Representatives Lateefah Simon (D-Calif.-12), John Garamendi (D-Calif.-08), and Ro Khanna (D-Calif.-17), called on the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to investigate the Trump Administration's use of emergency national defense authorities and taxpayer funds to subsidize commercial coal infrastructure.
In a letter to the GAO Acting Comptroller General Orice Williams Brown, Padilla and his colleagues expressed c...