U.S. Senator Maggie Hassan (D-NH), Ranking Member of the Joint Economic Committee and senior member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, today pressed the United States Secret Service for more information on the redirection of hundreds of millions in funds from the agency to White House construction projects. The Senator called for answers on how this has impacted operations, including security for the President and other protectees, and the agency’s anti-scam efforts. The White House has reportedly diverted more than $400 million in Secret Service funding to cover the costs of White House renovation projects – including President Trump’s new ballroom – despite the President’s claim that these projects would not be constructed with taxpayer money.
U.S. Senator Maggie Hassan (D-NH), Ranking Member of the Joint Economic Committee and a senior member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, is calling for immediate answers about a new taxpayer-funded political advertisement promoting President Donald Trump. The new 30-second ad, which has aired dozens of times on The Fox News Channel and Newsmax, has no clear purpose besides promoting President Trump 40 days out from a midterm election and features a disclaimer at the end that it was “Paid for by the U.S. Government.”
The U.S. Congress Joint Economic Committee - Minority issued a report today with new calculations that find that President Trump’s vanity projects – including construction of the new White House ballroom and the no-bid contract to paint the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, among others – are expected to cost more than $1.8 billion. Using this total, the Committee created an Interactive Cost Calculator where users can explore how this $1.8 billion could instead be spent to lower costs and help the American people.
Sep 15 2026
NEW DATA: Families Have Had to Spend an Additional $4,200+ on Everyday Essentials Under President Trump
While President Trump promised Americans that he would stop inflation and lower gas prices, hardworking families have instead had to spend an additional $4,200 on goods and services since the President took office last year. The updated data released today by the Joint Economic Committee - Minority include national, state-by-state, and congressional district-level costs for everyday essentials.
U.S. Senator Maggie Hassan (D-NH), Ranking Member of the Joint Economic Committee, today called for Capital One to provide more information to Congress about the company’s decision to close multiple bank accounts connected to President Donald Trump for anti-money laundering reasons. As detailed in a court filing earlier this summer, the account closures stemmed from an internal Capital One investigation that identified “suspicious transactions” in line with “Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing ‘Red Flags.’” This comes amidst current and long-standing money laundering issues connected to Trump: For instance, Trump recently pardoned a former CEO – who had been convicted of enabling money laundering that funneled funds to terrorists and sex traffickers – who has been crucial to the success of the Trump family’s World Liberty Financial crypto business.
Aug 26 2026
NEW DATA: Families Have Had to Spend an Additional $3,800+ on Everyday Essentials Under President Trump
American families have had to spend an additional $3,800+ on goods and services since President Trump took office last year, per updated data released today by the Joint Economic Committee - Minority. The new data include national, state-by-state, and congressional district-level costs for everyday essentials.
Aug 24 2026
NEW: Trump Gains $15.5 Million From Oil & Gas Stocks After His Iran War Gives Big Oil Sky-High Profits
The U.S. Congress Joint Economic Committee - Minority released a new analysis today which finds that, at the end of 2025,President Donald Trump held as much as $45.6 million in oil and gas stocks, a portfolio that is now worth up to $61.1 million given the sky-high oil and gas profits and stock prices tied to Trump’s war in Iran. And in just the first three months of 2026 – a period that covers both the U.S. operation in Venezuela and the start of the Iran War – the Committee found that Trump bought as much as $3.6 million in additional oil and gas stocks.
The U.S. Congress Joint Economic Committee - Minority issued a report today with new calculations that show that while President Trump made at least $2.2 billion in income in 2025, American families lost $219 billion to rising costs last year under Trump.
U.S. Senator Maggie Hassan (D-NH) has launched a new effort to combat the growing threat of superbugs – bacteria or fungi resistant to standard antibiotics. The U.S. Congress Joint Economic Committee - Minority issued a report today on the cost of superbugs – also called antimicrobial resistance – to the overall health care system, finding that outbreaks can cost approximately $5.7 billion when accounting for medical personnel, equipment, and the space necessary to treat patients. Additionally, Senator Hassan is today introducing the bipartisan Stop Superbugs Act with Senator Roger Marshall (R-KS), which would formally authorize and further focus the efforts of a National Institutes of Health (NIH) working group in order to help facilitate clinical trials for new antibiotics to mitigate the growing threat of antimicrobial resistance.
U.S. Senator Maggie Hassan (D-NH), Ranking Member of the Joint Economic Committee, today pushed Hugging Face, a platform for sharing and using AI tools, to prevent people from using the platform to create nonconsensual deepfakes that depict sexual content of women and children. This comes after public reporting and research from the technology watchdog AI Forensics that found serious problems with the company’s approach to protecting against this type of activity.