He sees the political winds turning against him, and he's going to try to interfere in the 2026 election.
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February 17, 2026
The newly unsealed affidavit shows this search originated from the frivolous claims of Kurt Olsen, an attorney who traffics in debunked falsehoods about the 2020 election.
— Mark Warner
Mark Warner
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Mark Robert Warner is a United States Senator from Virginia, serving since January 3, 2009. A member of the Democratic Party, Warner previously held the office of Governor of Virginia from January 12, 2002, to January 14, 2006. During his tenure in the Senate, he has focused on various issues including technology, healthcare, and economic development. Warner is known for his bipartisan approach and has worked on legislation aimed at improving the economy and supporting small businesses.
My reaction is it's awful. It would make Neville Chamberlain's giving in to Hitler outside of World War II looks strong in comparison.
I think the president is seeing this one-sided plan kind of blow up in his face with pushback from the Ukrainians, from the Europeans, from members of Congress of his own party.
This would be a complete capitulation and that's why I think you're hearing from Congress, both sides, people pushing back ... It feels like this was a plan that they took almost entirely from the Russians.
We hit a new low, what the administration did in the last 24 hours is corrosive not only to our Democracy but downright dangerous for our national security.
I hope it ends it this week. Frankly, I see it from my folks. I was greeting voters yesterday.
Get the darn thing open. Deal with the health care cliff. Don't let people go hungry, when we've got money set aside on SNAP.
If you want to put Americans in harm's way, it needs to be done on a bipartisan basis.
The notion of at least sitting down to talk about health care, making sure that $6 billion that is set aside for SNAP benefits gets paid out so people don't go hungry and we get the government reopened again.
Get the money out to people in need, sit down with us, get this resolved this week, and let's get everybody back to work.
This document needs to be shared with every member of the Senate this week, so that as we get into this discussion about war powers, we've got the basis of how the administration is claiming that it's legal.





