Sen. Elizabeth Warren has a phrase for Donald Trump: no. No to his cupboard picks, no to his insurance policies — basically no to any concept that comes from a Trump White Home.
If solely working for her Massachusetts constituents have been as excessive a precedence.
The Democratic senator telegraphed her intentions in a Nov. 7 oped for Time journal, wherein she lead with: “To everybody who appears like their coronary heart has been ripped out of their chest, I really feel the identical.”
Warren continued: “First, struggle each struggle in Congress. We gained’t all the time win, however we are able to gradual or generally restrict Trump’s destruction. With each struggle, we are able to construct political energy to place extra checks on his administration and construct the muse for future wins.”
Unity schmunity.
She ramped up her anti-Trump stance Monday in a put up on X: “Donald Trump and his transition group are already breaking the regulation. I might know as a result of I wrote the regulation. Incoming presidents are required to stop conflicts of curiosity and signal an ethics settlement.”
“That is what unlawful corruption seems to be like,” she added.
Because the Hill reported, Warren was responding to a Saturday report from CNN that stated a battle of curiosity pledge included within the Presidential Transition Act was, partly, maintaining a number of transition agreements from being submitted by the president-elect’s group to the Biden administration.
The Presidential Transition Act instructs candidates from main events to hitch in memorandums of understanding with the present president in addition to the Basic Providers Administration so employees might get their arms on related assets equivalent to amenities, paperwork, government department staff and nationwide safety info within the interval between the election and the inauguration. These agreements additionally characteristic an ethics plan.
Trump met with President Biden on Wednesday to speak in regards to the transition. In response to reviews, Trump stated that politics “is hard” however thanked the president for a easy transition. “You’re welcome,” Biden responded.
One would suppose signing the correct agreements can be on the to-do listing of an incoming president, even when they don’t achieve this on Warren’s timeline. The election was held a bit over every week in the past.
She additionally got here for Trump’s alternative of Fox Information host and veteran Pete Hegseth to function Protection secretary
“A Fox & Mates weekend co-host isn’t certified to be the Secretary of Protection,” Warren wrote on X. “I lead the Senate navy personnel panel. All three of my brothers served in uniform. I respect each one among our servicemembers. Donald Trump’s choose will make us much less protected and have to be rejected.”
There’s extra on Warren’s Simply Say No agenda. However what about Massachusetts? Her constituents right here have issues and wishes that have to be met, equivalent to changing the Sagamore and Bourne bridges.
As State Home Information reported in September, Warren was requested about funding for the mega-billion-dollar tasks. “We manage to pay for now, utterly allotted for the primary bridge (Sagamore), and we’ve began the cash on the second bridge. We’ve all the time recognized that we must fund these as we go alongside, however — I’ll simply be blunt. We’d like Democrats to get reelected to the Home, Senate and White Home, as a result of that’s the solely time that we’ve had sufficiently big infrastructure payments so as to have the ability to fund large tasks just like the Cape Cod bridges,” she advised reporters.
So Dems can struggle Trump on nearly any transfer he makes, however preventing for Sagamore and Bourne alternative funds are a bridge too far?
It’s going to be a protracted 4 years.
