Press Releases

Photos are available here WASHINGTON, D.C. – Last week, U.S. Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the top Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Seapower, concluded a week-long series of bilateral meetings with local, state, and federal lawmakers and defense industrial base partners in Sydney, Adelaide, Perth, and Darwin, Australia, to discuss the Australia-United Kingdom-United States (AUKUS) agreement. Kaine has long been a leading voi...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine (both D-VA) released the following statement regarding the General Assembly and Governor Abigail Spanberger’s approval of a new Virginia congressional map that now heads to Virginians for a referendum vote: “Donald Trump’s decision to prioritize redrawing voting maps across the country instead of focusing on lowering costs for families has created extraordinary circumstances for states like Virginia. There is now a temporary pr...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine (both D-VA) released the following statement after the Department of Justice fired James W. Hundley, whom the District Judges of the Eastern District of Virginia (EDVA) unanimously chose as the interim U.S. Attorney for EDVA: “The Trump Administration has shown complete disrespect for the longstanding process—which Presidents and Senators of both parties have respected and followed in Virginia for years—for the nomination and c...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA), a member of the Senate Budget Committee and former civil rights attorney, praised the Supreme Court’s ruling in Learning Resources v. Trump and Trump v. V.O.S. Selections, Inc. that the Trump Administration abused its authorities under emergency economic power legislation to impose broad-based tariffs. Kaine joined an amicus brief in the cases against Trump and has led four successful Senate bills to nullify Trump’s broad-based tariffs. “P...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, U.S. Representative James R. Walkinshaw (D-VA-11) and U.S. Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA) led a 21-member letter to Peace Corps Acting Director Richard Swarttz requesting detailed information about the agency’s ongoing plans to reduce staff and reorganize its structure. The lawmakers warned that pairing an “ambitious plan to increase the number of volunteers to 8,000 per year by 2030” with “significant staff reductions at Headquarters and overseas posts” raises “serious conce...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine, a member of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, (both D-VA) joined Senate colleagues in urging the Department of Education to immediately reverse the Trump Administration’s harmful decision to unilaterally halt federal funding for Minority-Serving Institutions (MSIs). In the letter to U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon, the senators criticized the Department of Education’s use of a Department of Justice...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Today, U.S. Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations and Armed Services Committees, released the following statement regarding reporting that President Donald Trump is considering imminent military action in Iran: “Trump is bumbling his way toward war with Iran in a feeble attempt to accomplish what had already been done by a diplomatic deal that was effectively curbing Iran’s nuclear program—until Trump tore it up, over the objections of his then-Secre...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine (both D-VA) released the following statement on the National Transportation Safety Board’s (NTSB) final report into the January 2025 midair collision near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA) that killed all 67 people aboard both aircraft: “We thank the NTSB for its thorough investigation of last year’s horrific crash near DCA that took the lives of 67 people, and for its recommendations on how to make the airspace a...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Representative Suhas Subramanyam (D-VA-10) and U.S. Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA) led a bicameral effort to pressure the Trump administration to provide a clear, categorical exemption for adopted children that would allow international adoptions to continue. Earlier this year, the administration announced that visa issuances would be paused for applications from 75 countries, claiming without evidence, that immigrants are a financial burden on Americans. The members and senato...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Tim Kaine (D-VA) and Pete Ricketts (R-NE), members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, sent a letter to U.S. Secretary of State and National Security Advisor Marco Rubio encouraging the Trump Administration to schedule the next Quadrilateral Security Dialogue between the United States, Australia, India, and Japan. In the letter, the senators underscored the importance of the Quad partnership in advancing U.S. national security and ensuring a free an...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Tim Kaine, co-chair of the Senate Career and Technical Education (CTE) Caucus and a member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, (D-VA), and U.S. Senators Ted Budd (R-NC), Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), and Todd Young (R-IN) introduced a bipartisan resolution recognizing February 2026 as Career and Technical Education (CTE) Month. Joint legislation was introduced in the House of Representatives by U.S. Representatives Glenn Thompson (...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – This week, U.S. Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (SFRC), joined Senate colleagues to introduce a bipartisan resolution condemning the Iranian regime for suppressing its citizens’ right to peacefully assemble and highlighting its long pattern of censorship, intimidation, and violent crackdowns against the Iranian people. “The right to peaceful protest is a fundamental human right that no government should impede,” said Kaine. “The Ira...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Tim Kaine (D-VA), a member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, Todd Young (R-IN), and Maggie Hassan (D-NH) reintroduced legislation to improve access to affordable child care for families with parents working nontraditional hours. The After Hours Child Care Act would support expanding legitimate existing child care programs, or establishing new facilities in some cases, so parents can remain in the workforce and provide for their...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), John Curtis (R-UT), Dick Durbin (D-IL), Ted Cruz (R-TX), Tim Kaine (D-VA), and Rick Scott (R-FL) released a statement regarding Venezuela:“We call for the immediate and unconditional release of Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Pablo Guanipa and all other remaining political prisoners, the ability for María Corina Machado to safely return and freely participate in political activity and a firm commitment to genuine elections.” ###

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Tim Kaine (D-VA), Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), and Mark R. Warner (D-VA), as well as Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee Ron Wyden (D-OR), praised the U.S. House of Representatives’ passage of legislation to repeal President Donald Trump’s International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) tariffs on Canada. The senators led bipartisan legislation in the Senate to challenge Trump’s tariffs on Canada, and...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Senator Peter Welch (D-VT), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, led a letter to U.S. Secretary of State and National Security Advisor Marco Rubio pushing the Trump Administration to immediately end deportation flights to Iran. Last month, it was reported that the Administration resumed the deportation of dozens of Iranians, many of whom could be persecuted, tortured, or even e...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Representative James R. Walkinshaw (D-VA-11) and U.S. Senators Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine (both D-VA) joined colleagues to introduce the Federal Adjustment of Income Rates (FAIR) Act, bicameral legislation that would provide federal employees with a 4.1 percent pay increase in 2027. “Federal workers are the backbone of America, delivering the essential services and benefits that families have earned in every corner of our country,” said Walkinshaw. “They serve co...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Last Friday, U.S. Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and U.S. Representative James R. Walkinshaw (D-VA-11), a member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on Military and Foreign Affairs, led a letter to Vice President JD Vance ahead of his upcoming trip to Azerbaijan. In the letter, the members urged Vice President Vance to raise concerns about the detention of Virginia constituent Dr. Gubad Ibadoghlu in Azerbaija...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Following pressure from U.S. Senators Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine (both D-VA), the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Inspector General has launched an audit of DHS data practices, including those used by ICE, in response to serious concerns about potential data privacy abuses and the misuse of sensitive personal information. In a letter to the senators, Inspector General Joseph Cuffari confirmed that his office has initiated an audit to assess how DHS components collect...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine (both D-VA) slammed the U.S. Office of Personnel Management’s (OPM) final rule that will allow the Trump Administration to reclassify and fire federal employees without cause or appeals rights. Schedule Policy/Career, previously known as Schedule F, is a policy that President Donald Trump pursued during his first term to strip federal workers of their protections and carry out politically motivated firings. “For decades, our no...Continue Reading