
Mark Warner: Sequester is ‘stupidity on steroids’
U.S. Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) on Tuesday chaired a Senate Budget Committee hearing on the impact of sequester spending cuts on national security and the U.S. economy.

U.S. Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) on Tuesday chaired a Senate Budget Committee hearing on the impact of sequester spending cuts on national security and the U.S. economy.

Defense and national security initiatives long championed by Sen. Jim Webb will be advanced by numerous provisions adopted in the National Defense Authorization Act
We are trapped in a vicious loop of nonsense, mania, political demagoguery and manufactured spectacle while the country goes to hell in a handbasket.
Mark Warner wants answers from the Trump regime on its efforts to put FBI resources into reinvestigating the lie that the 2020 presidential election was stolen.
President Trump has no problem criticizing, condemning, insulting, demonizing and threatening those who refuse to fall in line.
Two hundred and fifty years after the Declaration of Independence, we live under a government that increasingly behaves as though rights belong to the government to distribute, restrict and revoke as it sees fit.
Donald Trump promised Americans they would get tired of winning. If this is what winning looks like, America can’t afford much more of it.
As America’s war with Iran lurches from escalation to ceasefire to renewed threats of military force, Americans are being asked to trust that someone, somewhere, knows what they are doing.
One way or another, the American taxpayers always get screwed by politicians eager to spend our hard-earned dollars on programs and projects that do little to improve our lives, safeguard our freedoms, or secure our future.
The corruption, cronyism, and self-dealing that now define the American government — under Donald Trump in particular — amount to a slow-motion stick-up carried out in broad daylight.
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