WASHINGTON, April 3 -- Sen. Patty Murray issued the following press release:
Today, Senator Patty Murray, Vice Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, issued the following statement on the release of President Trump's fiscal year 2027 budget request (https://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/information-resources/budget/), which proposes increasing defense spending by roughly half a trillion dollars while slashing and even defunding key domestic programs that American families count on every day.
"The vision President Trump has outlined for America in his budget is bleak and unacceptable. President Trump wants to slash medical research to fund costly foreign wars. It doesn't get more backward than that, and the only responsible thing to do wit...