Democrats will lead Congress, and Senator Elizabeth Warren wants them to focus on economic issues. She fears the party might avoid bold plans after campaigning on affordability. "If Democrats don't deliver -- or at least get caught trying -- then it will be damned hard to go back," she said.
The Massachusetts senator said it is imperative that Democrats address economic pain after running campaigns that centered cost-of-living issues.
Senator Elizabeth Warren, Democrat of Massachusetts, has one big fear about her party's newfound congressional majorities.
It is that Democrats, after campaigning on affordability, will shy away from pursuing a "full-throated" agenda of "economic populism" that delivers for frustrated voters.
Ms. Warren knows that President Trump can still veto any legislation he wants and that the filibuster remains an impediment. But she believes there are already some areas of common ground between his party and hers -- such as limiting the role of private equity in buying up housing and capping credit card fees -- and that Democrats must push through those bills and many more.
"If Democrats don't deliver -- or at least get caught trying -- then it will be damned hard to go back to the American people and ask them to put us in charge again," Ms. Warren said in an interview with The New York Times.
Ms. Warren, who ran for president in 2020 and remains one of the party's leading voices on policy on the left, is set to deliver her vision for the next two years in a speech on Tuesday at Popular Mandate, a one-day conference of progressive groups in Washington.
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Ms. Warren, whose unofficial slogan during her 2020 run was "I have a plan for that," listed keeping private equity out of the housing market and capping credit card fees as issues that Mr. Trump has embraced previously and that Democrats support.
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