Several Senate Democrats were deeply offended when their colleague Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) publicly called them out by name for backing a bank deregulation bill that will heighten the chances of yet another devastating financial crisis, but that hasn’t deterred the Massachusetts senator from continuing to denounce members of her own party for cozying up to corporate power.
“Until we have all of the Democrats who are willing to fight for the American people and not for a handful of billionaires and giant corporations, then it’s going to stay an uphill fight.”
—Sen. Elizabeth Warren
In a new interview on Mehdi Hasan’s “Deconstructed” podcast, Warren said she agrees with Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) that too many Democrats lack the “guts” to take on Wall Street and argued that her party’s struggles will continue until all of its members are “willing to take on the billionaire class.”
“Until we have all of the Democrats who are willing to fight for the American people and not for a handful of billionaires and giant corporations, then it’s going to stay an uphill fight,” Warren argued.
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