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Elizabeth Warren
@elizabethwarren· Democratic · MA· Mar 7, 2023

House Republicans don't seem concerned about the upcoming debt limit deadline.

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Seth Moulton
@sethmoulton· Democratic · MA· Mar 7, 2023

the problem is that Vladimir Putin did not believe that before he started this war.

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Elizabeth Warren
@elizabethwarren· Democratic · MA· Mar 7, 2023

These MAGA House Republicans are threatening to cut the little bit of funding that we do have going into childcare.

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Elizabeth Warren
@elizabethwarren· Democratic · MA· Mar 7, 2023

So that's a pretty grim picture about what's going on, and it's particularly alarming because, in 2021, investors bought up one-quarter of all single-family homes that were on the market.

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Elizabeth Warren
@elizabethwarren· Democratic · MA· Mar 7, 2023

Americans are already suffering from severe lack of affordable homes, and any taxpayer money spent on housing should go toward fixing the problem, not making it worse.

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Elizabeth Warren
@elizabethwarren· Democratic · MA· Mar 7, 2023

And putting 2 million people out of work is just part of the cost, and they just have to bear it?

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Ed Markey
@edmarkey· Democratic · MA· Mar 7, 2023

People going to work with the protections of a union contract are more incentivized to commit to longer careers.

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Elizabeth Warren
@elizabethwarren· Democratic · MA· Mar 7, 2023

the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit is not perfect, but it helps drive the development of affordable rental homes.

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Elizabeth Warren
@elizabethwarren· Democratic · MA· Mar 7, 2023

Well, but it is, and it is in your report, and that would be about 2 million people who would lose their jobs, people who are working right now making their mortgages.

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Elizabeth Warren
@elizabethwarren· Democratic · MA· Mar 7, 2023

Responsible lawmakers should flat out refuse to cut a single dollar of investments for the 99 percent of Americans.

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Ed Markey
@edmarkey· Democratic · MA· Mar 7, 2023

I think under the American Recovery Act of the Biden Administration, we fixed a lot of those wrongs, bad behavior by corporations who claimed bankruptcy and then pointed the fingers at union pension funds saying they were mismanaged.

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Elizabeth Warren
@elizabethwarren· Democratic · MA· Mar 7, 2023

We could make the tax system a whole lot fairer as part of what we are doing here.

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Elizabeth Warren
@elizabethwarren· Democratic · MA· Mar 7, 2023

If defense is off the board, veterans are off the board, Social Security is off the board, Medicare is off the board, as some Republicans now claim, then the other programs... you have got to cut the other programs by about 78 percent.

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Elizabeth Warren
@elizabethwarren· Democratic · MA· Mar 7, 2023

We need a Fed that will fight for families, and if you are not going to lead that charge we need someone at the Fed who will.

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Elizabeth Warren
@elizabethwarren· Democratic · MA· Mar 7, 2023

the Fed has raised interest rates eight times over the last year in what has been the most extreme rate hike cycle in 40 years.

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Ed Markey
@edmarkey· Democratic · MA· Mar 7, 2023

Major airlines receive billions in Federal dollars, but instead of using funds to shore up the air travel industry, they're raking in record profits off the backs of these lowest-paid workers.

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Elizabeth Warren
@elizabethwarren· Democratic · MA· Mar 7, 2023

for decades the country has underinvested in our housing supply, and the data I see suggests we're now facing a shortage of as many 7 million affordable homes.

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