The Massachusetts progressive is going all-out to try to push her party to emerge from a morass of bad polling and stalled priorities before Election Day
to push the party to make deals on issues it ran on in 2020, then did a rare three-network sweep on the Sunday shows.
In tandem with Congress, she also wants President Joe Biden to cancel student loan debt, raise overtime pay and use executive actions to bring down drug prices. With the evenly divided Senate struggling to pass even a $10 billion coronavirus bill, it’s a tall order; still, Warren is pitching her revitalized agenda as a vital antidote to conservative framing of the election.
But rising prices, war in Ukraine and sagging public sentiment are dominating the political discourse. “What I would be doing is reversing the Trump tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans and extending the Child Tax Credit” that expired in January, said Bennet, who is up for reelection this fall. “That would help.”
But some Democrats are reluctant to crank up the negotiations, publicly at least. As Sen. Sherrod Brown put it: “We have an opportunity to do more. We don’t want the negotiations to be public ... And I don’t want to raise expectations.” He argues that last year was the best year for a president during his three decades in Congress.
“Let’s put it to the Republicans. Do they care about price gouging from the perspective of helping the consumers? Or from the perspective of letting the big corporations continue to get away with it?” Warren said.
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