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.
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.
As of August 2026, the average household in the United States has had to pay an additional $4,200+ for goods and services due to rising costs under President Trump.
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.
As of July 2026, the average household in the United States has had to pay an additional $3,800+ for goods and services due to rising costs under President Trump.
Aug 24 2026
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.
Aug 04 2026
A Public Health Crisis and Broken Market, “Superbugs” Cost the United States At Least $5.7 Billion a Year
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.
Jul 29 2026
Senator Hassan Presses Sado Capital on Management of Mobile Home Communities in New Hampshire
U.S. Senator Maggie Hassan (D-NH), Ranking Member of the Joint Economic Committee, today pressed Sado Capital, a real estate investment firm, on the impacts of its business practices on residents of manufactured housing communities in New Hampshire. In recent years, firms like Sado Capital have increasingly purchased manufactured housing communities, including The Meadows of Hopkinton – a 70-lot manufactured housing park in Contoocook, New Hampshire. Earlier this year, Senator Hassan launched a survey for Granite Staters to detail their experiences at mobile homes and visited The Meadows of Hopkinton. In addition, the NH Attorney General recently began an investigation into Sado Capital.