Video: Sen. Mark Warner Says Trump “pulling the rug out from underneath our Ukrainian allies,” Vance Meeting “with the farthest right Neo-Nazi party” “does enormous damage to us”

See below for a press release from Sen. Mark Warner’s office, regarding his “21 amendments to the GOP budget proposal to address the needs of working Americans and taking aim at the Trump administration’s lawlessness”; as well as video from Sen. Mark Warner’s weekly press availability earlier today. Among other things, Sen. Warner had the following to say about Trump’s betrayal of Ukraine and JD Vance’s bizarre speech and actions in Germany earlier this week:

“I don’t know if the president of the United States has actually even ever been briefed by his own intelligence community about who started the war in Ukraine. I do know this that it was Vladimir Putin, that he is the aggressor, that pulling the rug out from underneath our Ukrainian allies does enormous damage to us not only in Ukraine but in terms of the confidence that not just our European allies but allies around the world have. And you know who loves that? Vladimir Putin in Russia and president Xi in China. And I will bet you that they will ramp up their efforts because it appears like America is disarming itself to try to push back on disinformation.

Let’s face it, when the Vice President of the United States goes to Germany, visits Dachau, then lectures the Germans on how they ought to change their law ignoring the consequences of World War II, and subsequently meets with the farthest right Neo-Nazi party, I’ve never seen that in my lifetime. And having been in Munich during that period, there are going to be a whole lot of folks around the world who’s gonna whether they will ever trust us again and again. Who does that benefit? It benefits our adversaries.”

Ugh.

WARNER FILES AMENDMENTS TO REPUBLICAN BUDGET PLAN

WASHINGTON –  As the Senate prepares for an all-night vote-a-rama on the Republican reconciliation budget bill agenda that will cut taxes for the ultra-wealthy at the expense of Virginia families, Sen. Mark R. Warner (D-VA), a member of the Senate Budget Committee, filed 21 amendments to the GOP budget proposal to address the needs of working Americans and taking aim at the Trump administration’s lawlessness.

“As President Trump and Senate Republicans try to move a budget resolution clearing the way to cut taxes for the richest Americans at the expense of the programs working families depend on, it’s important to understand what we’re talking about here: the GOP plans to provide tax breaks for billionaires while slashing health care, education and public safety and doing nothing about the really big problems most Americans are facing, like the rising costs of housing and child care,” said Sen. Warner. “I hope some of my Republican friends will think twice about supporting a budget plan that cuts taxes for the richest and doubles down on the chaos of the Trump-Musk administration.”

Specifically, Warner’s amendments would:

Put senators on the record for raising costs, gutting programs American families rely on

• Create a point of order against any reconciliation bill that would not decrease the cost of housing for American families. Text
• Establish a deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to providing benefits to survivors of miners who died due to pneumoconiosis. Text
• Create a point of order against reconciliation legislation that would increase monthly student loan costs for borrowers of Federal student loans. Text
• Establish a deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to preserving funding and current staffing levels at the Department of Education. Text
• Establish a deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to providing affordable health care for American families, which may include making permanent the extended and expanded advance premium tax credits. Text
• Create a point of order against reconciliation legislation that would increase the cost of child care for United State families. Text
• Create a point of order against any reconciliation legislation that would increase health care costs for children receiving Medicaid. Text
• Establish a deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to prohibiting cuts to critical health programs, which may include preventing the institution of a Medicaid per capita cap policy. Text

Put senators on the record on combating Trump-Musk lawlessness and corruption

• Establish a deficit-neutral fund relating to protecting the American people from the People’s Republic of China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, transnational organized crime, and terrorism by prohibiting the mass termination of critical employees in the intelligence community. Text
• Create a point of order against reconciliation legislation if certain Federal civil service laws are being violated. Text
• Establish a deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to ensuring that employees of the Department of Justice, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and elements of the intelligence community are not subject to retaliation and firing due to political preferences of any Presidential administration. Text
• Create a point of order against consideration of reconciliation legislation until the Congressional Budget Office certifies that health, education, research, law enforcement, and foreign aid funding authorized by Congress is not subject to programmatic funding delays, deferrals, or rescissions. Text
• Create a point of order against considering funding legislation for the Office of the President while there is pending litigation alleging a violation of the Take Care Clause. Text
• Create a point of order against reconciliation legislation that would rescind obligated or awarded amount made available under the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022. Text
• Create a point of order against considering reconciliation legislation during a period during which there is an ongoing violation of the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Act of 1974, as determined by the Comptroller General of the United States. Text
• Create a point of order against consideration of spending or revenue legislation during any period during which there is an ongoing violation of the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974, as determined by the Comptroller General of the United States. Text
• Establish a deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to protecting duly-enacted appropriations from unconstitutional cancellation by the President. Text
• Create a point of order against reconciliation legislation during any year in which an employee has been placed in administrative leave for more than a total of 10 work days. Text
• Create a point of order against reconciliation legislation during any period in which there is litigation pending against the President or another Federal officer alleging a violation of certain provisions of title 5, United States Code. Text
• Establish a deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to protecting classified and sensitive information on programs and individuals of the United States from being accessed by DOGE employees. Text
• Establish a deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to prohibiting the closure or relocation of Federal agencies without congressional authorization. Text