Press Releases

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Tim Kaine (D-VA), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), and Cory Booker (D-NJ) led their colleagues in sending a letter to U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon opposing the Department of Education’s proposed changes to the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program. In March, President Donald Trump issued an executive order that would limit eligibility for PSLF by disqualifying certain public service employers. The changes would also make it harder for curre...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (SFRC) and the lead Democrat on the SFRC subcommittee responsible for human rights, released the following statement after SFRC voted to advance the nomination of William White to be Ambassador to Belgium. White was reported out of SFRC by a partisan Republican majority despite White’s amplification of a convicted white nationalist influencer and Holocaust denier, and his trafficking in el...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Tim Kaine (D-VA), Rand Paul (R-KY), Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), and Mark R. Warner (D-VA), as well as Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), announced that their legislation to undo President Donald Trump’s International Economic Emergency Powers Act (IEEPA) tariffs on Canada has been refiled. Since Trump launched his trade war with Canada, exports of U.S. distilled spirits declined by about 62 percent, and tourism from Canada to the U.S. fell by 33.9 perc...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Tim Kaine (D-VA), a former fair housing attorney, and Adam Schiff (D-CA), alongside U.S. Representative Scott Peters (D-CA-50), introduced the bicameral Fair Housing Improvement Act of 2025 to protect veterans and low-income families from housing discrimination. This legislation would expand protections to all veterans and low-income individuals by adding source of income (SOI) and veteran and military status to the list of protected classes under the Fair...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Mark R. Warner (D-VA), Tim Kaine (D-VA), Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Brian Schatz (D-HI), Alex Padilla (D-CA), and Angela Alsobrooks (D-MD) today introduced the Protect America’s Workforce Act – bipartisan legislation to repeal two union-busting executive orders and restore collective bargaining rights and workplace protections for federal workers. This legislation comes in response to two executive orders issued earlier this year by President ...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA) led his colleagues in sending a letter to PSA Airlines, Inc. urging them to continue contract negotiations and reach a fair agreement with over 1,700 flight attendants. The flight attendants have been bargaining for a new contract with PSA Airlines for over two years. “We write to express our concern regarding the prolonged contract negotiations impacting 1,700 flight attendants at PSA Airlines and urge you to negotiate a fair contract,” wr...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA), a member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released the following statement after Eli Lilly announced it will build a $5 billion manufacturing facility in Goochland County: “I’m thrilled Eli Lilly is building a $5 billion manufacturing plant in Goochland County, which will create good-paying jobs. This announcement is a testament to Virginia’s strong workforce and education system. It also builds on the ...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Tim Kaine, a member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and Mark R. Warner (both D-VA) sent a letter to U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon demanding the immediate reversal of the Department of Education’s decision to withhold millions of dollars in federal funding from Alexandria City Public Schools, Arlington Public Schools, Fairfax County Public Schools, Loudoun County Public Schools, and Prince William County Pub...Continue Reading

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