Press Releases

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Mark R. Warner, a member of the Senate Finance Committee, and Tim Kaine, a member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, (both D-VA) and 27 of their Democratic colleagues introduced the Keep Billionaires Out of Social Security Act, legislation that would reverse the disastrous actions the Trump Administration is taking at the Social Security Administration (SSA). The bill would prevent Social Security field offices from shutting dow...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA) released the following statement regarding Senate Republicans’ move to destroy decades of precedent by breaking the Senate’s long-standing rules to rush presidential nominees through the Senate without debate or individual votes: “Senate Republicans are blowing up decades of precedent about how nominations are considered for one reason: they want to hide from the American public how bad Donald Trump’s nominees really are by burying them in ...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine (both D-VA) and U.S. Representatives Bobby Scott (D-VA-03), Don Beyer (D-VA-08), Jennifer McClellan (D-VA-04), Eugene Vindman (D-VA-07), Suhas Subramanyam (D-VA-10), and James Walkinshaw (D-VA-11) released the following statement: “The rise in political violence—which has inflicted tragedy upon the families of Republican activist Charlie Kirk and Minnesota’s House Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman, a Democrat, and her husband Mar...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Tim Kaine (D-VA) and Todd Young (R-IN) applauded the U.S. House of Representatives’ overwhelming passage of legislation they have championed for years to repeal the 1991 and 2002 Authorizations for Use of Military Force (AUMFs) against Iraq. The legislation was included in the House’s passage of the Fiscal Year 2026 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). The 1991 and 2002 AUMFs—which passed 34 and 23 years ago, respectively—authorized the use of milita...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA), the top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere and the Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Seapower, led 24 senators in pressing the Trump Administration for answers regarding the September 2 U.S. military strike on a vessel in the Caribbean Sea that reportedly killed all 11 passengers on board. The Trump Administration has yet to provide Congress or the American people with any legitimate legal j...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, U.S. Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere, and U.S. Representative Joaquin Castro (D-TX-20), Ranking Member of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere, led their colleagues in sending a letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio calling out the Trump Administration’s support for Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele’s authoritarianism at the expense of U.S. national security in...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA), a member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and 11 of his Democratic colleagues demanded answers from the Trump Administration regarding its decision to deny 460,000 student loan borrowers access to lower repayment plans. The letter to the U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon follows the Administration’s announced plans to gut Income-Driven Repayment (IDR) plans, which cap monthly student loan payments base...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine (both D-VA) released the following statement after the Augusta Medical Group announced the closure of three practice locations—Weyers Cave Urgent Care, Buena Vista Primary Care, and Churchville Primary Care—in response to Republicans’ law that made major cuts to Medicaid: “We appreciate Augusta Health’s courage and transparency in being clear about the cause of these closures: reckless cuts forced through by our Republican coll...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Tim Kaine, a former civil rights lawyer, released the following statement regarding the Supreme Court’s move to grant a Justice Department request to allow the Trump Administration to target people for deportation based on their race or language: “Without even hearing oral arguments first, the Supreme Court greenlit a Trump Administration request to allow racial profiling in immigration enforcement activity. All Americans deserve to feel safe, regardless of...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – This week, U.S. Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA) introduced legislation to grant the District of Columbia full control over the Metropolitan Police Department. The introduction follows President Trump’s federalization of the Metropolitan Police Department in August, and as congressional Republicans plan more attacks on the District of Columbia’s self-governance. “If President Trump really cared about safety in D.C., he would have immediately deployed the National Guard on January 6, 2...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA) and U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-NM), Ranking Member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, announced that they refiled legislation in July to challenge President Donald Trump’s radical, cost-raising, job-killing energy agenda by repealing the national energy emergency declaration Trump has used to give Big Oil handouts. Kaine and Heinrich previously filed this legislation in February, but Senate Republicans blocked it fro...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Tim Kaine (D-VA) and Susan Collins (R-ME), members of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, introduced the Geriatrics Workforce Improvement Act to reauthorize funding for the Geriatrics Workforce Enhancement Program (GWEP) and the Geriatrics Academic Career Awards (GACA). Both programs were last authorized in 2020 as part of the CARES Act and are set to expire at the end of this month. “Older Americans deserve to age with dignity and...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Tim Kaine (D-VA) and Thom Tillis (R-NC) and U.S. Representatives Mike Lawler (R-NY-17) and Don Beyer (D-VA-08) introduced the bipartisan, bicameral Appalachian Trail Centennial Act, legislation to strengthen the public-private partnerships that preserve, maintain, and manage national trails. This legislation—inspired by the National Trails System Act of 1968, which has led to the establishment and expansion of thousands of National Recreation Trails—aims t...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine (both D-VA) and U.S. Representative Bobby Scott (D-VA-03) slammed the Trump Administration’s withdrawal of $39,265,000 in federal funding they secured for the Fairwinds Landing maritime operations and logistics facility in Norfolk: “The withdrawal of federal funding for the Fairwinds Landing facility is further evidence of this Administration’s across-the-board, reckless approach to governing. If the Administration took the tim...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine (both D-VA) announced $700,000 in federal funding for Wise County to expand water service connections as part of the Upper Guest River Sewer Extension project. The funding was awarded by the Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC), an economic development agency of the federal government and 13 state governments that collaborate to invest in community economic growth and innovation in 423 counties across the Appalachian region. T...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine (both D-VA) announced $48,329,251 in federal funding to support infrastructure improvements at 18 airports across Virginia. This funding, allocated by the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration under the Airport Infrastructure Grants and the Airport Improvement Program, is made possible in part by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law—historic legislation the senators helped pass. “We’re proud to announ...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine (both D-VA) highlighted a new report from the Joint Economic Committee warning that the Trump Administration’s sweeping tariff regime—which has included almost 100 different policies since April—has directly harmed the American manufacturing sector and could cost the U.S. more than $490 billion in manufacturing investments by 2029. “If President Trump were actually focused on lowering costs, he would never have never implemente...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine, a member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, (both D-VA) released the following statement regarding the Trump Administration’s plans to pull federal funding from the Alexandria, Arlington, Fairfax, Loudoun, and Prince William County Public School Districts: “The Trump Administration destroyed the federal Department of Education and forced out an exceptional president at the University of Virginia. No...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine (both D-VA) announced $8,235,920 in federal funding to reduce energy costs for Virginian households and expand access to reliable, affordable energy across the Commonwealth. Awarded by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), this funding is allocated through the Weatherization Assistance Program, which aims to reduce energy costs for low-income households by increasing energy efficiency of homes, and through the State Energy Progr...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine (both D-VA) applauded Senate passage of legislation to fund a number of major priorities, including the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), the Department of Agriculture (USDA), and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for Fiscal Year 2026. “Especially after Congress failed to pass a full-year FY25 funding bill last year, I am encouraged to see the Senate move to pass legislation to fund key parts of the government for Fiscal Year ...Continue Reading