Elizabeth Warren
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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.
The Biden-Harris administration has laid out the most comprehensive policy platform for Puerto Rico in history.
He is demonstrating a leadership that we have been waiting for, and Treasury has a really important role to play here, including engaging with our allies.
You have talked a lot about how inequality undermines opportunity and mobility, and you have described it as something that holds our economy back.
Will you commit to using FSOC authorities to address economic inequality, including by recommending more regulatory scrutiny of private equity funds?
Our financial system has been rigged for a long time to help the wealthy and the well-connected.
This pandemic will not be over for us until it is over for everyone, and our economy will not fully recover until other countries are back on their feet as well.
Inequality is felt not just in income. It is also felt in wealth even more so, and that our tax structure makes that inequality worse over time.
Economic research to understand the specific transmission channels between climate-related risks and the financial system is essential to understanding the impact of those risks on the Federal Reserve's mission.
I support an independent audit of Puerto Rico's debt so that the Federal government and the public can understand the size of the island's debt.





