Warner and Kaine Slam Partisan Spending Bill

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senators Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine (both D-VA), both members of the Senate Budget Committee, issued the following statement after Senate Republicans passed a partisan megabill that abandons the regular-order funding process and provides $70 billion in taxpayer funds for the Trump-Vance Administration's draconian immigration agenda:

"At a time when millions of Americans are struggling to deal with rising costs generated by Donald Trump's disastrous Iran war and his chaotic tariff taxes, what do Republican Senators do? They pass a bill giving $70 billion to immigration agencies sitting on $100 billion in unspent funds from last year. The bill passed today does nothing to bring down costs for everyday American families, nothing to reform the Administration's out-of-control immigration agenda that has led to the harassment and murder of American citizens, nothing to keep the President from funneling money to political cronies or vanity projects like his ballroom, and nothing to end an unpopular and illegal war that is costing Americans tens of billions at the gas pump. Democratic efforts to redirect the $70 billion to reduce housing and health care costs were blocked by the GOP majority, and efforts to include basic immigration reforms were blocked as well. It's shocking that the Trump-Vance agenda is so out of touch with the needs of American citizens."

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