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 ran on making change. We made promises to people and it is our obligation to get out there and fulfill those promises.
Democracy. If we deliver, then people will show up. If we follow through on our promises, then people will come.
We need to move forward. We need to deliver on our promises. And that means now.
If you're a wealthy tax cheat in a partnership, your odds of getting audited are slightly higher than your odds of getting hit by a meteorite.
For the sake of fairness--and for the sake of the budget--it makes a lot more sense to go after cheating by the big guys than focus on working people.
It's absolutely critical that the focus of that reporting be on the wealthy tax evaders.
It is crucial to make sure that this money is going towards making our tax enforcement fairer, not reinforcing inequities like the racial wealth gap.
I have introduced the Restoring the IRS Act to provide $31.5 billion in mandatory annual funding to allow the IRS to fairly enforce the tax code.
Will you commit the IRS to conducting thorough analyses of the racial impacts of IRS services and enforcement activities?
Will you commit the IRS to conducting a thorough analysis of the racial impacts of IRS services and enforcement activities?
A decade of budget cuts have hollowed out the IRS, so it just does not have the resources to go after wealthy tax cheats.
This past year has shown that corporate profits are more important to your bank than offering just a little help to struggling families.
Wall Street built this system. They did not build it for everyone. They built it for themselves.
When companies lay people off, when they move jobs to low-wage countries, when they cut paychecks, when they bust unions...
$1.463 billion. That is nearly $1.5 billion that you collected from your customers.
Stock buybacks used to be illegal market manipulation. Today they are routine.
The economy is not physics. It is not governed by scientific laws outside our control.





