Elizabeth Warren: Dems should pursue ‘bold’ policy agenda - Live Updates
POLITICO · Jasper Goodman ·
The Massachusetts Democrat is in line to chair the Senate Banking Committee.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Thursday said “Democrats must deliver” on an aggressive policy and oversight agenda aimed at lowering costs even while President Donald Trump is in the White House, including through the party-line budget reconciliation process.
The Massachusetts Democrat, who is poised to chair the Senate Banking Committee next year, wrote in a TIME Magazine op-ed that it “would be a breach of faith” with people “who voted for us to address costs and corruption, to spend the next two years waiting for some future Democratic trifecta to hopefully deliver meaningful change.”
“Donald Trump says he wants to work with Democrats,” she wrote. “We should force him to do that on the affordability and corruption issues that drove this election—or call his bluff. I’m ready to team up with any Republican who is listening to the American people. But if Congressional Republicans won’t join us to deliver relief for working families, Democrats will do it without them.”
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