Sen. Elizabeth Warren Says Administration Is Too Chummy with Wall Street
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United States Senate(WASHINGTON) — Sounding as if she hasn’t entirely closed the door on a 2016 White House run, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren took a battering ram to the Obama administration in an exclusive interview with Salon, charging that the White House failed the American people by siding more with Wall Street during the near-financial collapse six years ago.
Warren, who says she’s not seeking the Democratic presidential nomination, was blunt, claiming the president’s economic team “protected Wall Street. Not families who were losing their homes. Not people who lost their jobs. Not young people who were struggling to get an education. And it happened over and over and over. So I see both of those things and they both matter.”
She accused the nation’s rich of making an all-out effort to concentrate money and power, but Warren, a populist, believes, “We have our voices and we have our votes. If people get engaged on the issues, the votes are on our side.”
The first step to leveling the playing field just a bit is raising the federal minimum wage.
Warren did offer some conciliatory words to the White House and Democrats for “fighting for the right things.” She said that had it not been for Obama, “we would not have a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Period. I’m completely convinced of that.”
Warren was an early advocate of the CFPB, which Senate Minority Leader Mitch O’Connell has threatened to roll back if the GOP gains control of the Senate.
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