Dylan Stafford

Communications Director for @SenateApprops

[FactPost @factpostnews]

Sen. Murray: How do you justify cutting NIH funding by billions to send half a trillion more to the Pentagon?

Bhattacharya: The budget... uh.... is obviously a bigger problem...

Sen. Murray: You didn't really answer the question. I know why.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Patty Murray to Blanche: "This is corruption that has never been more blatant. What's happening is you write the check, Trump and his cronies cash it, and American taxpayers who are already being whacked with high prices are gonna foot the bill."

[Dominic Pino @DominicJPino]

Imagining explaining to the Founding Fathers that the president imposed tariffs without an act of Congress and then removed them at the request of the King of England

[Andrew Desiderio @AndrewDesiderio]

Thune blows off steam on Senate-House DHS funding impasse

“We did it not once, but twice. I came back & did it a 2nd time, & the administration made it very clear that they wanted and expected that hopefully to be picked up & passed by the House.”

“Well, that was 27 days ago.”

[Jamie Dupree @jamiedupree]

There is no bill on the House schedule this week that would fund the Department of Homeland Security.

[Brendan Duke @Brendan_Duke]

Astounding that they passed $4.5T in tax cuts—including some supposedly huge political winners like No Tax on Tips—9 months ago and now many think they need *another* bill addressing affordability?

Hard to think of a bigger indictment of the choices in One Big Beautiful Bill.

[Senate Budget Democrats @SenateBudget]

MURRAY: You have no idea how much has been spent on the war so far?

VOUGHT: We don't have that figure.

MURRAY: You're not even going to give us a range?

VOUGHT: No.

MURRAY: It's your job to know.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Murray: "We should be sending money to our schools, not buying more missiles that Trump can fire on schools in Iran. We should be building bridges here in America, not destroying them in Iran. This budget would rob our families and burden our grandkids with mountains of new debt, and for what? So Trump has more bombs he can threaten to end civilizations with?"

[Samantha Handler @sn_handler]

Top Senate Dem appropriator Patty Murray blasts the Trump admin's FY2027 budget request.

Murray says while Trump is "sending prices skyrocketing" with the war in Iran, the president is proposing cutting affordability programs like LIHEAP

[Catherine Rampell @crampell]

Quite the midterm message: we can afford wars and ballrooms, but not your “daycare, Medicaid, Medicare, all these things”

[Sam Stein @samstein]

I'm trying to make sure i understand this. Republicans did not want to pass a standalone bill to pay TSA agents but they supportive of Trump using emergency authorities to pay TSA agents?

[Laura Rozen @lrozen]

Republican blocks Dem effort to fund TSA, FEMA, Coast Guard

[Jon Favreau @jonfavs]

Why are Republicans refusing to fund TSA when there are now hours long wait times at airports?

[CSPAN @cspan]

.@SenPattyMurray pushes to fund DHS—except for ICE and CBP—through unanimous consent: "We want reforms to rein in ICE and Border Patrol. We also want TSA and FEMA funded. But we are not going to be blackmailed into cutting a blank check for ICE to get it done."

[Senator Patty Murray @PattyMurray]

In just 2 days, Trump burned $6 BILLION on his war with Iran. He's spent billions more in the days since.

We could have DOUBLED our annual budget to help families afford child care. Or built more housing.

Instead, Trump's spent YOUR tax dollars on a war no one asked for.

[Senator Patty Murray @PattyMurray]

Democrats want to get TSA agents paid, but we won't help Republicans cut a blank check to help Stephen Miller terrorize Americans. 

And I won’t let Trump blackmail Democrats into funding rogue ICE agents just because he started a war with Iran.

[Igor Bobic @igorbobic]

Angus King, who voted to end last shutdown, responds to GOP attacks over DHS shutdown and TSA lines:

“Patty Murray put a bill on that would have funded TSA, Coast Guard, CISA and FEMA, and the Republicans objected to it, which I found kind of surprising. So as far as I'm concerned, they have no basis for complaining.”

[Kevin Gordon @KevRGordon]

Truly stunning increase in US gasoline prices … the national average was $2.80 in mid-January; we’re now at $3.41