Blue Virginia Weekly News Roundup (6/21/26)

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VA House, Senate reach budget deal w/new tax on data centers, plus "safe, legal & well-regulated cannabis market"; Sen. Warner says US-Israel relationship "fractured"; Here Are the VA01 Dem Candidates

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• Video: Sen. Mark Warner Says U.S.-Israel Relationship “Fractured”; They “have made a strategic error by putting all their eggs in the basket of Donald Trump”

• Ivy Main Is Right – It’s Not Acceptable (or Sustainable) for Virginia Legislators to “Pass the Buck on Concrete Data Center Reforms”

• VA Senate Finance & Appropriations Chair Louise Lucas, House Appropriations Chair Luke Torian Statement on Reaching a Budget Agreement

• With Virginia Early Voting Underway for the 8/4 Primaries, Here Are the VA01 Democratic Candidates Vying to Take on Rep. Rob Wittman (R-VA01) This Fall

• Gov. Abigail Spanberger Marks Juneteenth by Hosting First-of-Its-Kind Celebration for State Employees

• Gov. Abigail Spanberger Encourages Commonsense Water Conservation in Response to Historic Drought Conditions

• Video: Sen. Mark Warner Rips “disaster”of Trump’s Iran MoU, the “irony of signing it at Versailles”

• Prince William County Supervisor Kenny Boddye: Data Center Tax Breaks, “if they are kept at all - should be tied to clear public goals”

• Gov. Spanberger [Ceremonially] Signs Historic Legislation to Guarantee & Expand Contraception Access

• A Few Thoughts on VA01 Democratic Candidate Shannon Taylor’s “’Serve the People First’ Agenda”

• Video: Sen. Mark Warner Wonders If Trump Pulling Back Jay Clayton as DNI “may be an effort to try to distract from [the Iran] deal”

• VA Dem Congressional Delegation Endorses Fmr. Rep. Elaine Luria to Unseat Rep. Jen Kiggans (R-VA02) and Take Back the House

• Video: Gov. Abigail Spanberger Says “no one single person should hold up the budget and potentially risk the entire economic stability of…Virginia”

• Gov. Spanberger [Ceremonially] Signs Legislation to Protect Families, Kids, & Law Enforcement Officers from Gun Violence

• Video: Sen. Tim Kaine Tells Trump’s Nominee for Deputy OMB Director He’s Either a “conspiracy theorist” or “afraid of making an insecure president mad by acknowledging that [Biden won the 2020 election]”

• Video: VA Senate Finance and Appropriations Chair Louise Lucas Says “Virginia will have a budget by June 30th and we are still working to get this right for Virginians”

• Video: Gov. Abigail Spanberger, VA Sen. Lashrecse Aird, Del. Paul Krizek Announce Creation of “safe, legal and well-regulated cannabis market” Starting 7/1/27

• Video: Gov. Abigail Spanberger Declares “There is no other option but to have a budget [by 6/30]…every member of the General Assembly…must have this as their priority”

• Rep. Eugene Vindman (D-VA07): “The outlines of [Trump’s Iran] deal are still not completely clear, but the strategic folly here ranks among America’s worst”

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