WASHINGTON, July 21 -- Sen. Jeanne Shaheen issued the following press release:
U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), a senior member of the U.S. Senate Armed Services and Appropriations Committees and Ranking Member of the Senate Appropriations Ag-FDA Subcommittee, today questioned U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) Secretary Pete Hegseth, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Dan Caine and U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins in a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing reviewing the President's supplemental funding request. With the President relaunching the war with Iran, Shaheen pressed Secretary Hegseth on the lack of transparency around the conflict and failure by the Administration to achieve any of its stated...