#tim-kaine — Public Fediverse posts

Trump claims hostilities have ended in Iran in letter to congressional leaders https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/01/trump-iran-war-hostilities-letter #UsisraelWarOnIran #DonaldTrump #UsCongress #Iran #ChuckSchumer #TimKaine #PeteHegseth #Democrats #UsSenate #HouseOfRepresentatives #UsForeignPolicy #UsMilitary #UsPolitics #UsNews #MiddleEastAndNorthAfrica #WorldNews

Hostilities with Iran ‘terminated,’ Trump says in War Powers letter – Roll Call

The White House is arguing to lawmakers that President Donald Trump…
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https://www.newsbeep.com/514913/

Facing 60-day deadline, Trump administration claims Iran war ‘terminated’

The Trump administration is arguing that the war in…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #America #BrennanCenter #Congress #donaldtrump #FoundationforDefenceofDemocracies #iran #KatherineYonEbright #NationalSecurityCouncil #OperationEpicFury #PeteHegseth #RichardGoldberg #Senate #StraitofHormuz #SusanCollins #TimKaine #UnitedStatesofAmerica #WarPowersResolution
https://www.newsbeep.com/us/616877/

US likely struck Iranian school by mistake. Senators demand answers

WASHINGTON (…
#NewsBeep #News #Topstories #Activism #DistrictofColumbia #DonaldTrump #EliseBaker #Generalnews #Governmentandpolitics #Headlines #Iran #iranwar #KarolineLeavitt #KevinCramer #LloydAustin #Militaryanddefense #PeteHegseth #Politics #Schools #TimHawkins #TimKaine #TopStories #U.S.DepartmentofDefense #U.S.news #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesgovernment #Washingtonnews #WesBryant #Worldnews
https://www.newsbeep.com/430211/

Democrats threaten more Iran war powers votes

Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., talks with reporters outside the U.S. Capitol after President Donald Trump selected Sen. Markwayne…
#NewsBeep #News #BreakingNews #AdamSchiff #BoeingCo #breakingnews #BreakingNews:Politics #businessnews #CoryBooker #DonaldTrump #donald-j-trump #GeneralDynamicsCorp #Iran #LockheedMartinCorp #MarcoRubio #NorthropGrummanCorp #PeteHegseth #Politics #TammyDuckworth #TimKaine
https://www.newsbeep.com/426661/

Democrats thrown into disarray as US offensive on Iran creates cracks https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/02/democrats-divided-iran-trump #Democrats #UsisraelWarOnIran #TrumpAdministration #UsPolitics #DonaldTrump #Iran #Republicans #MiddleEastAndNorthAfrica #UsNews #WorldNews #BernieSanders #TimKaine #UsCongress #HouseOfRepresentatives #UsSenate

Sen #TimKaine also echoed Sen #MarkWarner (D-VA), the top #Democrat of the #Senate #Intelligence Cmte, saying that “all of the intelligence” he has seen suggests that there was “no imminent threat” from #Iran. He said Iran was “a decade” away from building missiles that could reach the #US.

#Trump #warmonger #WarCrimes #RegimeChange #RulesOfWar #law #Congress #WarPowers #geopolitics #MiddleEast

Democratic lawmakers are criticizing Trump’s decision to strike against #Iran without congressional approval or seeking a declaration of #war in #Congress. Sen #TimKaine (D-VA), a member of the #Senate Armed Services Cmte, called the #US military campaign “an illegal war” on Fox News.

#Trump #warmonger #WarCrimes #RegimeChange #RulesOfWar #law #WarPowers #geopolitics #MiddleEast
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03/01/world/iran-attack-khamenei-trump/886aeeb3-372d-5c16-8c46-9953c4d73349?smid=url-share

#USPol #TimKaine #Caved

Calling Tim Kaine's office (he stopped allowing voice calls years ago)

but the voicemail message is "The Office Is Closed For The HOLIDAY SEASON" (emphasis mine)

God he is so terrible.

#DickDurbin #MaggieHassan #TimKaine #JeanneShaheen #PeterWelch and #AngusKing all #VotedForFascism with her.

Demand that your reps and senators resist.

Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine on legal questions surrounding the Venezuela attack – NPR

Politics

Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine on legal questions surrounding the Venezuela attack

January 3, 202610:27 AM ET, Heard on Weekend Edition Saturday

Daniel Estrin 4-Minute Listen Transcript

Kaine is among the lawmakers who have been critical of the Trump administration’s stance toward Venezuela.

DANIEL ESTRIN, HOST:

We have been following the extraordinary news out of Venezuela this morning. Overnight, U.S. forces targeted the country, capturing its president, Nicolás Maduro, and his wife. Some U.S. lawmakers have been criticizing the Trump administration’s stance on Venezuela. Among them is Senator Tim Kaine. The Virginia Democrat is the ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere. He’s a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee as well, and he joins us now. Good morning, Senator.

TIM KAINE: Daniel, good to be with you.

ESTRIN: You were among the lawmakers who said the Trump administration’s strikes on boats in the Caribbean were illegal. You were even discussing the possibility of those strikes constituting a war crime. So how do you see last night’s operations?

KAINE: Daniel, I think these strikes are clearly illegal. They have not been authorized by Congress, and the Constitution is clear that the U.S. doesn’t engage in military action or war without a vote of Congress, except in cases of imminent self-defense. The Constitution is absolutely clear on that. And so the boat strikes in international waters are illegal. Murdering shipwrecked sailors clinging to wreckage in those waters is illegal. And a U.S. invasion of Venezuela to depose its president and arrest him is illegal. And I have a vote scheduled in the next few days when we get back to Congress on Monday to put all senators on the record as to whether we should be at war with Venezuela without a vote of Congress.

ESTRIN: Senator, many Venezuelans do not support Maduro. Do you see anything positive from this development?

KAINE: Maduro is a disaster, and he’s been disastrous for the country. And we could say the same thing about a hundred and fifty leaders of countries around the world. But our Constitution is very, very clear that we don’t order servicemen and women into harm’s way, risking their lives, unless there is a congressional debate and vote about whether the war is in the national interest. Here, there was no real notification, no real Consultation, no real debate, and definitely not a vote. The president believes he can wage war on his own. And in the last weeks, you’ve seen him use the U.S. military to ostensibly protect Christians in Nigeria and threaten to use the U.S. military to protect Iranian protesters. He’s threatened U.S. military force or suggested he’s open to it to seize Panama, to seize Greenland. It’s time for Congress to get off the couch and exercise the oversight over this president’s desire to wage war on his own.

ESTRIN: What do you think President Trump is actually getting at with this operation?

KAINE: It’s unclear because the president started these operations in international waters, saying it was about narco-trafficking. But now both he and other administration officials have said, we want our oil back, we want our assets back and we also want to change regimes. The U.S. has tried to stand for the proposition that the sovereignty of nations should be respected. That’s why we’ve criticized Russia for its invasion of Ukraine. But we can’t, with a straight face, make the argument that we support the sovereignty of nations if we’re willing to engage in a unilateral presidentially declared war against Venezuela. And thus, he is really undercutting U.S.’ moral and – stance for an international rule of law where nations can invade each other willy-nilly, just because a president decides it’s a good idea to do so.

Editor’s Note: Read the rest of the story, at the below link.

Continue/Read Original Article Here: Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine on legal questions surrounding the Venezuela attack : NPR

TIM ISN’T READING THE ROOM #timkaine #senate #democrats #house #tiktok https://youtube.com/shorts/tAjUIyaBGmA?si=aYeFyPBTb9YQFn5p via @YouTube

CNN – What Matters – November 10, 2025

Editor’s Note: Below is a re-formatted post from a CNN Newsletter. It will appear online soon. The newsletter is sent first, then it is published online in a later cycle. I’ve posted it here, because of my comments. This 8-member “deal” on the side is a huge mistake. Read more below. –DrWeb

: Democrats seethe over shutdown deal.
They might be celebrating in a year

The likely end to the longest-ever government shutdown has Democrats turning on each other in searing anger.
 
The prevailing opinion appears to be frustration that eight senators freelanced a deal with Republicans.
 
While it does not guarantee the extension of expiring enhanced subsidies for Obamacare health insurance plans, it does guarantee there will be a Senate vote on that subject.
  
Sen. Tim Kaine, who helped finalize the deal, defended it on CNN Monday. Kaine noted that the White House had pledged to rehire federal workers fired during the lapse in government funding and to bar further reductions in force at least until January 30.
 
That’s not good enough for many Democrats who were feeling powerful after victories in mostly blue-state elections last week. They wanted to hold out for more guarantees from the White House, even as the nation’s air travel system started to buckle under the strain of air traffic controllers not being paid and people who rely on the government for assistance buying food went without.
 
There’s no guarantee that House Speaker Mike Johnson will allow a House vote on extending the enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies, but Kaine argued that if senators pass it with bipartisan support and Johnson ignores it, the GOP will pay a political price.
 
“Their midterm election next year would look a lot worse even than the shellacking they got last week in Virginia and elsewhere,” Kaine said.
 
The expiring enhanced subsidies, according to analysis by KFF, will be felt more in states that voted for Trump in 2024, and could result in millions of people opting not to have health insurance at all.
 
This shutdown, assuming it ends and is not repeated in January, won’t be top of mind for voters in midterm elections next year, but it’s still worth taking a look at what happens at the ballot box after a shutdown.

DrWeb’s Comment…

“While it does not guarantee the extension of expiring enhanced subsidies for Obamacare health insurance plans, it does guarantee there will be a Senate vote on that subject.” –article quote

I have highlighted in bold a quote from the article. It is embarassing to post the truth for these eight renegades. They got scammed, including Catherine Cortez Masto, one of my Senators I used to support in Nevada.

To believe that quote, is to believe or trust Trump. I don’t.

These 8 should have known better. I don’t believe or trust the Trump Senate. I don’t.

It won’t vote on the subject, or the votes will vote to remove Obamacare and/or the subsidies, surprise surprise.

All the damn signs point to Trump erasing Obamacare (ego thing to do), and replacing it –after many years of asking GOP for any national health plan, they will dump something out and call it National Health Care by Trump.

Watch, wait, Trust me. They are screwed, these 8, we are screwed by the failure to support the Democratic Party (outliers not welcomed). All those closed days –accomplished NOTHING. Because of these 8 fools. –DrWeb

#Americans #CNN #Democrats #EightSenators #FederalGovernmentShutdown #GovernmentShutdown #healthCare #Newsletter #Republicans #ShutdownDeal #SubsidiesInJeopardy #TimKaine #Trump #USHouseOfRepresentatives #USSenate #Voters #WhatMatters #WhiteHousePledges_ #ZacharyBWolf

HT @BlueWaver22

* #CatherineCortezMasto — received from #AmericanAirlinesPAC in 2022.

* #DickDurbin — received from American
Airlines PAC in multiple cycles (e.g., 2014,
2020).

* #MaggieHassan — received from American Airlines PAC in 2022.

* #TimKaine — received from American Airlines PAC (2024) and Airlines for America PAC (2024).

* #AngusKing (I) — received from American Airlines PAC in 2024.

* #JackyRosen — received from American Airlines PAC in 2020.

* #JeanneShaheen — received from American Airlines PAC in 2020.

https://www.opensecrets.org/political-action-committees-pacs/american-airlines/C00107300/candidate-recipients/2024

#USPol #GovernmentShutdown #FollowTheMoney #Traitors #Centrists #EstablishmentDemocrats #AnusKing

What does a list of spineless fucking QUNTS look like?

#CatherineCortezMasto (NV),
#DickDurbin (IL), #MaggieHassan (NH), #TimKaine (VA), #JackyRosen (NV), #Jeanne Shaheen (NH) and #AngusKing (ME).
FUCK them ALL - especially the dribbling #Repugliqunt in disguise #JohnFetterman!

@AIF_Massachusetts F-ing #TimKaine! So sick of establishment Dems!
#EstablishmentDemocrats

I find this surprising https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpd2p2eddnzo #USPolitics #shutdown #TimKaine

Tiniest Crack In The Wall: Senate Votes To Dump Trump’s Vindictive Brazil Tariffs

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2025/10/29/tiniest-crack-in-the-wall-senate-votes-to-dump-trumps-vindictive-brazil-tariffs/

'A Trump statue?' Senator fears Lincoln Memorial could be target after White House rebuild

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.rawstory.com/raw-investigates/donald-trump-2674244490/

@ALittleBitOfEverything the #christiannationalists are attacking #timkaine’s remarks that “god given rights” (which the #declarationofindependence says is the basis of our #democracy ) is “what the Iranian government believes.”

#republicans counter that if government is the source of our rights, then government can take them away

How is that any different than the #christiannationalist’s using their interpretation of their god to taking our rights away?

https://christianaction.org/u-s-senator-says-our-rights-dont-come-from-god/

@GhostOnTheHalfShell

#USpol #Rhethorics

I'd say, there are many.

One example:

"During a Senate hearing, Sen. #TimKaine questioned a Trump administration official [#MichaelRigas] over the government's destruction of aid rather than provide the food to hungry children.

#news​ #politics​ #liberal​ #politicalnews​ #us​ #usnews​ #democrat​ #progressive​ #congress​"

“President #Trump & Secretary of #State #Rubio are once again making America less safe & less secure,”Sen #TimKaine (D-VA) said in a statement.
“This is one of the most ridiculous decisions that could possibly be made at a time when #China is increasing its diplomatic footprint around the world & establishing an overseas network of #military & #transportation bases, #Russia is continuing its years-long brutal assault of a #sovereign country, & the #MiddleEast is careening from crisis to crisis.”

Blake Lively DEPOSITION DAY - Will She Show? & Doctor Content Creator Under Fire For Spreading Lies! - YouTube https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gpi_kFGtuMQ&list=PLocc5Mp7hk0lUOsoPFqdA1IleS9oHJR2q&index=1&pp=iAQB0gcJCdAJAYcqIYzv

10.44 min. mark Towing companies follow #ICE vehicles to prevent them from kidnapping people . #FIGHTBACK. #DueProcess #StopAbductionsAndRemovals #FascistUSA

12.30min mark #TimKaine said lying about #Iran and nukes is just like bullshitting in the early 2000s to involve U. S. in war.

SleeperCells? IDK abt you but I doubt it . Sounds off base to me.

22yr old Trump fan leads terrorism prevention? Come on!!!

#MahmoudKhalil 's release.

#KilmarAbregiGarcía Judge has now ordered released before trial now

Republicans back Israeli attack on Iran but some Democrats say it sabotages nuclear talks https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/13/israel-iran-republican-democrats-reactions #MiddleEastandnorthAfrica #Iran'snuclearprogramme #Trumpadministration #BenjaminNetanyahu #Irannucleardeal #USforeignpolicy #DonaldTrump #MikeJohnson #Republicans #MarcoRubio #USCongress #USpolitics #JohnThune #Democrats #Worldnews #TimKaine #Israel #USnews #Iran