Top Democratic lawmakers are accusing the Trump administration of blocking billions of dollars in federal funding that they say is at risk of lapsing at the end of the month.
A tracker released Monday by Sen. Patty Murray (Wash.) and Rep. Rosa DeLauro (Conn.), top Democrats on the Senate and House appropriations committees, respectively, tallies more than $410 billion in blocked federal funding.
“We are now nine months into the year—and weeks away from the end of the fiscal year—and President Trump and Russ Vought continue to withhold hundreds of billions of dollars from families, farmers, children, small businesses, and communities in every part of the country,” they said in a joint statement.
It marks the latest estimate released by Democratic appropriators in recent months as they ra