Gillibrand Slams Trump for Spending on 'Vanity Projects'

New York's junior U.S. senator used her weekly video conference call with reporters to slam President Donald Trump for spending billions of taxpayer dollars on what she called "vanity projects" like construction of a new White House ballroom and a no-bid contract to paint the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. Kirsten Gillibrand's words on Thursday followed a new congressional report which found that the cost of those projects is expected to exceed $1.8 billion. She believes are better uses for that money...

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The New York Democrat called on Trump to "stop this self-serving chaos and focus on what actually matters to Americans"...

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Gillibrand, who is on the Senate Appropriations Committee, added that she is working with her Democratic colleagues to put "strong, enforceable" guardrails in next year's budget to keep the Trump Administration from shifting money towards such projects.