We are losing an estimated 10,000 units of public housing every year, just to deterioration and disrepair.
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.
Despite the promise of Section 3, its mandate has been chronically unmet and underenforced.
Enforcement is a critical tool, but it is only as good as the underlying rules.
Enforcement is obviously very important, but we need better underlying rules too.
My bill...calls for $70 billion for the Public Housing Fund to wipe out this repair backlog.
I appreciate your commitment to elevating labor and environmental concerns in trade policy.
The Internet is a large and growing force in the U.S. economy and global trade.
we need to do more than just say the right thing every time Democrats are in charge at USTR.
We are disinvesting in the affordable housing that exists, losing units year after year.
We are losing about 10,000 units a year, about 200,000 units that we can count so far, units that families need to be able to live in.
This is unacceptable. We need to be going further than the President has proposed.
we now have every single Democrat is on board with a voting rights bill, an anticorruption bill. And that’s -- that’s powerfully important.
We need more than $70 billion just to make public housing safe for the residents who are there.
if we want American families to come out ahead on trade deals, we need to start by fixing the processes that produce rigged outcomes.
Regional, racial, and gender equity issues are important for trade policy decisions.
We have to have the whole thing, not just -- not just cleave off a little piece of it.
I’ve been fighting against the filibuster for years now. It is -- it gives Mitch McConnell a veto, and I am opposed.
It’s not only about access to the polls. It’s about things like banning gerrymandering and getting that under control. It’s about exposing dark money and trying to squeeze it out of elections. It’s about anticorruption and conflicts of…
Do you agree any digital trade policies must not undermine or forestall privacy regulation, disinformation prevention, or antitrust actions?
The threat to our democracy, on voting, is enormous. This one is existential. We have to fight back against Republicans cutting out people from being able to vote and cutting out the effectiveness of their vote.
Bad trade deals like NAFTA... disproportionately harmed Black and Brown workers.
There will be one infrastructure deal, and it will be a big infrastructure deal. A part of this is how we`re going to pay for it. And that means making sure that billionaires and giant corporations are paying a fair share, and that we`re…
USTR should not sign trade deals without fully consulting and securing support from labor and environmental groups.





