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Elizabeth Warren: “Government doesn't have to just work for Wall Street banks…”

Featuring: Elizabeth Warren, Democratic | U.S. Senate, Massachusetts

Talk Easy Interview with Senator Elizabeth Warren on Constitutional Crisis and Public Education

Published April 20, 2025 | Video Starts at 43:10

Roughly around $18 billion. There we go. That is a big win. Huge win. Huge win. And you know how else it's a win? It shows you actually can make government work. Government doesn't have to just work for Wall Street banks or billionaires. We can make it work for everybody else. But I do believe that it would have done more good if you were the one hired to run it. Now, hold on. July of 2011, President Obama brings you into the Oval Office. (43:10–43:17)

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Asserts that government can be made to work for the general public, not just for the wealthy.

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“Half the babies in this country get their health care through Medicaid and the Republicans want to cut it.”
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“Right now in America, people have more credit card debt delinquencies than they did right after the 2008 crash.”
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“Consumer confidence has just collapsed in America. It's the lowest numbers ever.”
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“Did you know that Elon Musk makes $8 million a day just off his federal contracts?”
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“In roughly a dozen years of operation, [the CFPB] has uncovered about $21 billion in fraud.”
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“Part of the sin of 2008 was that the bailout was all about the guys at the top and not about the 10 million families that lost their homes.”
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“JP Morgan collected $1.3 billion in overdraft fees from their customers in 2020.”
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“They went out and actually helped 203 million Americans. They kept count of who got helped directly from the work they did.”
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“He [Donald Trump] promised on day one that he was gonna lower costs.”
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“If [Donald Trump] breaks this country, if he breaks sort of our, you know, three parts of government, the legislature rights the laws, the…”
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“They're going after the department, the Department of Education... what they want to do is basically cut so that class sizes get bigger.”
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“Little kids with serious disabilities don't get the aid that they needed so they can be in a classroom along with the other kids.”
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“It means the after school programs are gone.”
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“I've got a thing going now called Save Our Schools, and it's to try to get more people from all around the country to lift up their stories…”
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“We are literally then in full blown constitutional crisis.”
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“We've been inching toward constitutional crisis all along. When you've got a president who just doesn't care what the law is, when he's…”
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“Ultimately, the power is less about Congress and more about 300 million people across this country who are going to have to be in the fight…”
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“The Supreme Court needs to say clearly and with one voice, no, Mr. President, you're the one who has to back down.”
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“You don't get to create chaos through declaring an emergency.”
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“We actually, over here in Congress, not only have the law on our side, we actually have spines.”
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“We got 47 Democrats ready to [stand up and say no to the president].”
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“A handful of Republicans, and everything that's happening right now in Washington changes.”
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“I send out letters to people in the Trump administration.”
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“Got an investigation on Department of Education.”
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“They're trying to fire everybody.”
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“I get an independent investigator to come in and say, can you still meet statutory authorities?”
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“I pull in other Democrats with me, and that's important.”
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“Veterans services and the Republicans want to cut it.”
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“They want to make these cuts in government so that a handful of billionaires can run this country and basically not have to pay any taxes…”
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“He promised over and over and over and over and over is I will lower your costs on day one.”
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“What he [Elon Musk] wants to do is cut access to Social Security for people who make an average of $65 a day.”
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“Now here we are in the third month, and when he's told, you know, the stuff you're doing around tariffs could actually raise people's costs…”
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“More auto loan delinquencies.”
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“They're saying inflation, they anticipate is going to be around 6.4%.”
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“I've got more credit card debt than savings in America right now.”
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“Do you think Donald Trump would be president if Elon Musk hadn't put a third of US billion dollars into his campaign?”
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“Our democracy can't survive if it's just going to be all about big money.”
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“Wall Street [was allowed] to cheat a bunch of families across this country.”
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“They load a lot of risk into our economy.”
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“That's exactly what happened in 2008.”
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“Those families had had one of three things happen to them, and most had had two out of three. They had had terrible medical problems, they…”
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“These were also people who were increasingly tricked and trapped into just crappy financial products.”
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“We basically turned loose a handful of smart money boys off Wall Street to just go out there and like a plague of locusts on American…”
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“Millions of families have either lost their homes or are in the process of losing their homes.”
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“Tim Geithner, who then was Secretary of the Treasury... said, we've foamed the Runway enough that the banks will survive.”
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“We got a guy right now who is saying that he's flirting with not obeying lawful court orders.”
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“We are fighting for the things that hardworking middle class families need like health care and Social Security and public education.”
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“Democrats all over this country are holding town halls.”
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“Republicans can't hold town halls.”
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“We are not getting chased off stage and running down hallways and hiding our faces from our constituents.”
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“Do you know they put out something the other day and said they're not going to prosecute white collar crime?”
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“Public education is about creating opportunity for every single child.”
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“Elon Musk can be peeled off from the Trump administration.”
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“They are vulnerable because they are doing shit that people don't like in this country.”
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