She wrote a New York Times op-ed last week claiming Democrats are headed toward big losses in the elections without delivering on their goals.
Democrats can't afford to lose a single Senate seat and are at great risk of losing the House in November, but Warren is offering a prescription that is in keeping with her policy-wonk identity. She wants a ban on lawmaker stock trades on the Senate floor and quick work on a drug pricing and tax reform bill to wash away the bad taste of Build Back Better.
Warren said that her job right now was to light the fire of urgent. We can't waste a day.
She wants President Joe Biden to use executive actions to bring down drug prices, raise overtime pay, and cancel student loan debt. With the evenly divided Senate struggling to pass even a $10 billion coronaviruses bill, Warren is pitching her revitalized agenda as a vital antidote to conservative framing of the election.
Democrats need to respond to the economically struggling Americans. Warren said that they are not here to fight cultural wars. We are here to make a difference in the lives of people who need us.
There is a debate among Democrats about how successful they have been during the last 16 months of control of Washington. A new Supreme Court justice, a bipartisan infrastructure law, a government funding law, a postal reform bill, and a $1.9 trillion coronaviruses relief law have been passed.
The political discourse is dominated by rising prices, war in Ukraine and sagging public sentiment.
The inflation thing is hard because people will assume that it is Biden's fault or our fault. The Pandemic is causing more of this than anything else. Jon Tester wants the Senate to focus on lowering meat and prescription drug prices.
If the Democrats don't take more action after running on a sweeping anti-corruption bill, federal elections reform, beefing up social spending programs and reversing the Trump tax cuts, voters will be disappointed. Over-promising and under-delivering is not an effective strategy according to Sen. Michael Bennet.
The Child Tax Credit expired in January, so I would be reversing the Trump tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Sen. Joe Manchin are talking about taking the place of the social policy bill. Warren said that Democrats use their power to pass a party-line spending plan successfully, even though it probably won't have the expanded child tax credit.
I don't care who gets to carry the leadership mantle or who does the work. She said that we need to pick the pieces that the American people are counting on us to deliver on.
Some Democrats are reluctant to make the negotiations public. We have an opportunity to do more, as Sen. Brown put it. We don't want the negotiations to be public. He argues that last year was the best year for a president in his three decades in Congress.
The Democratic leader has declined to embrace the idea of putting popular pieces of the failed Build Back Better plan on the floor and dare Republicans and Manchin to block them. She said there could be some utility to creating contrasts between the two parties.
She wants Democrats to put a bill that would allow the Federal Trade Commission to investigate price gouging and she wants Republicans to vote against it. A simple bill.
Put it to the Republicans. Do they care about helping consumers? From the perspective of letting the big corporations continue to get away with it?
The tension between his multiple ambitious members sets up complicated dynamics for Schumer to navigate. There is bipartisan hand-wringing over Biden's border policies and Democrats are itching to confront rising prices, as Biden is asking for more money for military aid for Ukraine.
While Democrats still control the Senate, there are plenty of nominees that Biden wants confirmed. Schumer has a dilemma, what can he put on the floor to get the most bang for the buck and actually make a difference?
She believes that an aggressive agenda is the best way to get Democrats out of their defensive crouch.
Warren said that the things they need to do are things that touch people's lives directly. The Republicans did not.
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