Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) has warned Democrats that if they fail to deliver on their promises as soon as possible, the results of the upcoming fall midterm elections might not be to their liking.
Prior to the 2020 elections, Democrats advanced several plans, but “Republican senators and broken institutions” have stalled progress on such plans in hopes of hurting Democrats’ chances of getting reelected, Warren said.
Republicans, she said, “want to frame the upcoming elections to be about ‘wokeness,’ cancel culture and the ’militant left wing'” and accused Republicans of peddling “lies, fear, and division.”
- Rooting out corruption among government officials, something the senator says is of “top concern.” Washington should also begin “cleaning up government,” including banning members of Congress and their spouses from trading or owning individual stocks.
- Reining in inflation by stopping private companies from “jacking up prices.”
- Strengthening antitrust laws, breaking up monopolies, and taxing windfall profits.
- Plugging “tax loopholes” for the rich, and putting in place a “global minimum corporate tax,” while ending the practice of “wildly profitable corporations” paying little to nothing in federal income taxes.
- Ending some student loan debt to “close gender and racial wealth gaps.” Warren claims that women shoulder the most amount of student loan debt and that a higher percentage of black and Hispanic students take on debt to attend college than white students.
- Lowering the price of prescription drugs and ensure that more workers can be made eligible for overtime pay.
The Democrat’s article comes at a time when the Biden administration is facing increasing scrutiny from the public on multiple fronts like the supply chain crisis, record inflation, COVID-19 mandates, the southern border crisis, and so on.
“Most Americans have never experienced high inflation like this, particularly on gas prices, and it has gotten everyone very upset,” he said. “Behavioral economics reveals that people hate inflation more than they love a low unemployment rate. And the pandemic still colors everything. People have been through the wringer.”