It is not just the right thing to do; it is how we retain our competitive advantage against China.
Elizabeth Warren
The Public Record
Elizabeth Ann Warren is an American attorney, academic, and politician serving as the senior United States senator from Massachusetts since 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, she has been a prominent advocate for consumer protection, economic equality, and corporate regulation. Warren gained national recognition for her work in establishing the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and has focused on issues such as student debt relief and healthcare reform during her tenure in the Senate.
We really need the government's signal and the government's support to help companies make those investments.
Investing in workers should be the core of our domestic agenda and our trade agenda.
So 6 million lost jobs from this negotiated trade agreement that was great for multinational corporations, just not good for Chinese workers, and definitely not good for American workers.
We must protect and lead in labor rights, to show other nations that is the way to more sustainable economic growth.
We have a historic opportunity right now to invest in American workers and American families; in other words, to invest in U.S. competitiveness.
U.S. trade policy needs structural reforms to ensure that it reflects the interests of all Americans, not just a handful of corporations trying to maximize short-term profits.
Climate change poses an existential threat to every living thing on this planet.
The United States does not have a trade agreement with China, so there are no standards for environmental or worker protections.
We can set the rules of this market ourselves, or we can sit back and let other countries do it.





