Congressional Oversight Panel Chair Elizabeth Warren speaks at the Women in Finance Symposium, March 29, 2010. Photo provided by the Treasury Department.
Leon Wolf reports in The Blaze:
Massachusetts Sen. and former presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren (D), meanwhile, is confident that Biden’s expected win is a victory for “the most progressive economic and racial justice platform of any general election nominee ever,” as she wrote in an op-ed for the Washington Post.
As for the fact that the American people likely elected a Republican Senate and a larger number of Republican congressmen and therefore perhaps were not quite as keen on the most progressive platform ever? Warren argues that Biden should ignore that fact, saying, “We need to deliver [on progressive promises], even as Republican leaders can’t acknowledge the election outcome and plan to grind Congress to a halt.”
The fact that Republicans won enough elections in 2020 to grind Biden’s agenda to a halt is, apparently, an “election outcome” that Warren isn’t interested in acknowledging.
Instead, she argues that “there are lots of big changes that a Biden-Harris administration can achieve through executive orders and agency action on day one.” Among other things Warren thinks Biden should do without Congress, Warren argues that Biden should:
- Cancel “billions of dollars” in student loan debt
- Bypass patents for companies that have expended millions of dollars in research funds to develop life-saving drugs
- Raise the minimum wage for all federal contractors to $15 an hour
- Establish a “Racial and Ethnic Disparities Task Force” to “review racial disparities in pandemic funding.”
- Declare the the climate crisis a national emergency
Warren concludes, “Even so, we know that Washington insiders and their establishment allies are ready to declare that unity and consensus mean turning over the governing keys to giant corporations and their lobbyists — the exact opposite of what voters want.”
