Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.), the chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said he believes President Trump’s “America first” policy is quacking making the country “America alone.”
Warner joined CBS News’s “Face the Nation” on Sunday, where he was asked if he was glad the Trump administration is taking a more aggressive stance against the Houthi Rebels in Yemen and what impact it could have on trade through the Red Sea.
“I think we should take more affirmative action. I think the administration is doing the right thing,” he said.
“I would rather them do it with more of our allies involved,” Warner continued. “But the fact that Donald Trump’s ‘America first’ is turning quickly into ‘America alone,’ but the basis of going after Houthis in a stronger, tougher way, I agree with.”
The Trump administration's recent attack on the Houthis has been closely examined after it was revealed the administration included The Atlantic’s editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg in its group chat talking about the strike.
Warner laid into several Trump administration officials on Tuesday during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on their handling of the chat's messages.
“This is one more example of the kind of sloppy, careless, incompetent behavior, particularly towards classified information, that this is not a one-off or a first-time error," he said.
In the messages, it was revealed that Vice President Vance and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth were critical of Europe.
Since the start of the administration, Trump has sought to distance the U.S. from some of its closest allies, including Canada and Mexico, who have been hit with tariffs.
He’s repeatedly expressed a desire for the U.S. to acquire Greenland, a territory owned by Denmark, and engaged in an argument with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky after showing closeness with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
