Elizabeth Warren

I am committed to making sure that that happens, both in Massachusetts and all around the country.

The Biden administration has made historic investments in our infrastructure, including through the Infrastructure Investments and Jobs Act.

We need Federal funds.

However, according to the Federal Highway Administration nearly 69,000 highway bridges--that is more than 1 out of every 10 highway bridges in the whole country--are currently classified as 'structurally deficient.'

The bridges are vital assets for the Cape Cod economy but they are in desperate need of replacement.

House Republicans are holding the U.S. economy and millions of workers hostage by threatening not to raise the debt limit unless Democrats agree to massive cuts to critical government programs.

Certainly, default would be catastrophic: according to a recent analysis, even a days-long debt ceiling breach would trigger a recession and cost nearly 1 million Americans their jobs.

But caving into Republican demands for massive cuts would be no less disastrous: austerity would trigger a year-long recession and put 2.6 million people out of work.

It would also diminish gross domestic product (GDP) by almost 3 percent over the next decade, the equivalent of putting the entire U.S. economy on pause for a full year.

These bank failures were the direct result of policymakers' decisions over the last 5 years, beginning with a 2018 law signed by President Trump.

In 2018 though, Trump's bank deregulation law and the door it opened for Fed Chair Powell to further hack away at the rules created an exception to annual Fed-administered stress tests, letting banks from $50 billion to $250 billion…

President Biden called on Congress and regulators to strengthen the rules for banks to make it less likely that this kind of bank failure will happen again.

The Biden administration has made historic investments in our infrastructure, including through the Infrastructure Investments and Jobs Act.

The bridges are vital assets for the Cape Cod economy but they are in desperate need of replacement.

We need Federal funds.

I am committed to making sure that that happens, both in Massachusetts and all around the country.

However, according to the Federal Highway Administration nearly 69,000 highway bridges--that is more than 1 out of every 10 highway bridges in the whole country--are currently classified as 'structurally deficient.'

The net result could be a disaster: more overpayments and waste in the system, at the same time that Americans who have earned their Social Security benefits are unable to receive them.

If the agency seeks to reduce its staff further, the results will be devastating.

This would represent a reduction in workforce of over 10 percent and will have devastating impacts on the program.

As President Trump’s nominee for SSA Commissioner, you will be responsible if the Trump Administration’s attacks on the program result in failures or delays in getting Americans their Social Security checks — in other words, a backdoor cut…

This is about security in the short term right now. And to just hand that over for political purposes, to try to reshape a narrative that's at odds with what America saw with its own eyes, that is genuinely dangerous and shocking.

If the Republicans want to sit down and negotiate, what they got to do is, first, they need to vote to raise the debt ceiling.

The Republicans right now are just playing hostage games. So they're saying, if you don't do what we want to do, we're going to default on the debt.

What the President is trying to do, for example, with Medicare, is to say we can extend the life of Medicare by just changing how much we're paying the drug companies, negotiating for drug prices and bring down costs for American families.