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FULL REMARKS: Elizabeth Warren Issues Blunt Message To The Democratic Party About Its Future

Published January 12, 2026 | Video Starts at 26:50

Even over the objections of other Democrats. Many voters are rightly skeptical that we'll really make something happen. After all, We didn't even take the extraordinarily obvious and simple step of increasing the minimum wage the last time we had power. Why not? Well, ask Kyrsten Sinema, the former Democratic senator from Arizona who curtsied on the Senate floor while rejecting a minimum wage increase in 2021 to raise wages for … (26:50–26:59)

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Asserts that Democrats failed to raise the minimum wage when they had the opportunity.

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“Kyrsten Sinema... rejected a minimum wage increase in 2021 to raise wages for up to 27 million Americans.”
FULL REMARKS: Elizabeth Warren Issues Blunt Message To The Democratic Party About Its Future | Uploaded January 12, 2026 | 27:01-27:25
“The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau delivered until Russ Vogt got a hold of it, over a billion dollars a year to people who got…”
FULL REMARKS: Elizabeth Warren Issues Blunt Message To The Democratic Party About Its Future | Uploaded January 12, 2026 | 37:00-37:13
“Home mortgage foreclosures are up 21% since Donald Trump took office.”
FULL REMARKS: Elizabeth Warren Issues Blunt Message To The Democratic Party About Its Future | Uploaded January 12, 2026 | 39:52-39:59
“Most estimates are that we're about 3 million housing units short of what we need in America.”
FULL REMARKS: Elizabeth Warren Issues Blunt Message To The Democratic Party About Its Future | Uploaded January 12, 2026 | 45:29-45:37
“The Trump administration just signed off on the biggest merger in the real estate industry in history.”
FULL REMARKS: Elizabeth Warren Issues Blunt Message To The Democratic Party About Its Future | Uploaded January 12, 2026 | 47:32-47:41
“President Trump's tariffs are driving up costs for families.”
FULL REMARKS: Elizabeth Warren Issues Blunt Message To The Democratic Party About Its Future | Uploaded January 12, 2026 | 04:48-04:52
“Millions of Americans have lost their health insurance so that Republicans could fund tax breaks for rich people.”
FULL REMARKS: Elizabeth Warren Issues Blunt Message To The Democratic Party About Its Future | Uploaded January 12, 2026 | 04:52-04:59
“He [Donald Trump] not only has failed in both of those, he has actually made life worse.”
FULL REMARKS: Elizabeth Warren Issues Blunt Message To The Democratic Party About Its Future | Uploaded January 12, 2026 | 05:10-57:29
“Trump is trying to push out the chairman of the Federal Reserve Board and complete his corrupt takeover of America's central bank.”
FULL REMARKS: Elizabeth Warren Issues Blunt Message To The Democratic Party About Its Future | Uploaded January 12, 2026 | 05:27-05:37
“Democrats lost power because we were too progressive for a lot of powerful people, wealthy people from Wall Street, Silicon Valley and…”
FULL REMARKS: Elizabeth Warren Issues Blunt Message To The Democratic Party About Its Future | Uploaded January 12, 2026 | 06:00-06:13
“A Democratic Party that worries more about offending big donors than delivering for working people is a party doomed to fail in 2026, 2028…”
FULL REMARKS: Elizabeth Warren Issues Blunt Message To The Democratic Party About Its Future | Uploaded January 12, 2026 | 07:15-07:30
“The top 1/10 of 1% of the economic ladder doesn't have a lot of votes.”
FULL REMARKS: Elizabeth Warren Issues Blunt Message To The Democratic Party About Its Future | Uploaded January 12, 2026 | 07:35-07:41
“There is a different and frankly, much larger group of extremely wealthy people trying to influence policy.”
FULL REMARKS: Elizabeth Warren Issues Blunt Message To The Democratic Party About Its Future | Uploaded January 12, 2026 | 08:33-08:43
“These people push Democrats to embrace candidates who will slow walk popular economic policies.”
FULL REMARKS: Elizabeth Warren Issues Blunt Message To The Democratic Party About Its Future | Uploaded January 12, 2026 | 09:18-09:26
“They lobby for deregulation and special tax breaks that will pad their own bottom lines.”
FULL REMARKS: Elizabeth Warren Issues Blunt Message To The Democratic Party About Its Future | Uploaded January 12, 2026 | 09:26-09:33
“They promote making big time corporate lawyers federal judges.”
FULL REMARKS: Elizabeth Warren Issues Blunt Message To The Democratic Party About Its Future | Uploaded January 12, 2026 | 09:33-09:38
“They pressure presidents to appoint tepid leaders at regulatory agencies.”
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“Rich people can fund super PACs to prop up political campaigns for their chosen candidates.”
FULL REMARKS: Elizabeth Warren Issues Blunt Message To The Democratic Party About Its Future | Uploaded January 12, 2026 | 10:05-10:11
“The slew of white collar pardons issued in recent months by President Trump reflects the same the rules only apply to someone else mentality…”
FULL REMARKS: Elizabeth Warren Issues Blunt Message To The Democratic Party About Its Future | Uploaded January 12, 2026 | 11:11-11:26
“Democrats need to earn trust. Long term durable trust across the electorate.”
FULL REMARKS: Elizabeth Warren Issues Blunt Message To The Democratic Party About Its Future | Uploaded January 12, 2026 | 12:17-12:26
“Democrats weren't always just the default option when the other guys were worse.”
FULL REMARKS: Elizabeth Warren Issues Blunt Message To The Democratic Party About Its Future | Uploaded January 12, 2026 | 12:40-12:46
“We can't win unless we rebuild trust.”
FULL REMARKS: Elizabeth Warren Issues Blunt Message To The Democratic Party About Its Future | Uploaded January 12, 2026 | 13:30-13:35
“For years I fought for a simple free government tax filing system so nobody has to pay a couple hundred bucks just to file their taxes.”
FULL REMARKS: Elizabeth Warren Issues Blunt Message To The Democratic Party About Its Future | Uploaded January 12, 2026 | 17:50-18:02
“The giant tax prep companies have thrown up roadblocks to stop [a free government tax filing system].”
FULL REMARKS: Elizabeth Warren Issues Blunt Message To The Democratic Party About Its Future | Uploaded January 12, 2026 | 18:04-18:09
“When the IRS finally built a free and wildly popular filing option for American taxpayers, the tax prep companies swooped in to kill it the…”
FULL REMARKS: Elizabeth Warren Issues Blunt Message To The Democratic Party About Its Future | Uploaded January 12, 2026 | 18:09-18:24
“One of my favorite legislative achievements in the Senate is a bipartisan law I got enacted to cut the price of hearing aids by thousands of…”
FULL REMARKS: Elizabeth Warren Issues Blunt Message To The Democratic Party About Its Future | Uploaded January 12, 2026 | 18:25-18:42
“Even after we got it signed into law, it failed, faced years of delay, and nearly died because hearing aid manufacturers mobilized to…”
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“The defense industry [is] blocking legislation that would have guaranteed our military the right to repair their own equipment.”
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“Reid Hoffman, one of the biggest donors in the Democratic Party, according to the New York Times.”
FULL REMARKS: Elizabeth Warren Issues Blunt Message To The Democratic Party About Its Future | Uploaded January 12, 2026 | 20:01-20:08
“He's the same billionaire who donated $7 million to supporting Kamala Harris and then spent much of the campaign publicly pressuring her to…”
FULL REMARKS: Elizabeth Warren Issues Blunt Message To The Democratic Party About Its Future | Uploaded January 12, 2026 | 20:07-20:22
“Harris proclaimed that she would address high costs facing families by putting in place tough corporate price gouging laws.”
FULL REMARKS: Elizabeth Warren Issues Blunt Message To The Democratic Party About Its Future | Uploaded January 12, 2026 | 21:28-21:39
“According to the New York Times, she narrowed those proposals after a quote, corporate allies of the campaign badgered her into doing so.”
FULL REMARKS: Elizabeth Warren Issues Blunt Message To The Democratic Party About Its Future | Uploaded January 12, 2026 | 21:39-21:54
“A recent poll by Jeff Guerin, the pollster for both Kamala Harris and Chuck Schumer, showed how much stronger a populist message performs…”
FULL REMARKS: Elizabeth Warren Issues Blunt Message To The Democratic Party About Its Future | Uploaded January 12, 2026 | 23:42-23:57
“It means boosting pay and making life more affordable for working people.”
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“Building more affordable homes and cracking down on corporate landlords.”
FULL REMARKS: Elizabeth Warren Issues Blunt Message To The Democratic Party About Its Future | Uploaded January 12, 2026 | 25:03-25:08
“Increasing the size of Social Security checks.”
FULL REMARKS: Elizabeth Warren Issues Blunt Message To The Democratic Party About Its Future | Uploaded January 12, 2026 | 25:08-25:12
“Providing universal child care.”
FULL REMARKS: Elizabeth Warren Issues Blunt Message To The Democratic Party About Its Future | Uploaded January 12, 2026 | 25:11-25:14
“Passing price gouging laws with real teeth.”
FULL REMARKS: Elizabeth Warren Issues Blunt Message To The Democratic Party About Its Future | Uploaded January 12, 2026 | 25:13-25:18
“Strengthening unions.”
FULL REMARKS: Elizabeth Warren Issues Blunt Message To The Democratic Party About Its Future | Uploaded January 12, 2026 | 25:22-25:24
“Building universal health care.”
FULL REMARKS: Elizabeth Warren Issues Blunt Message To The Democratic Party About Its Future | Uploaded January 12, 2026 | 25:24-25:27
“Taxing the wealthy and giant corporations.”
FULL REMARKS: Elizabeth Warren Issues Blunt Message To The Democratic Party About Its Future | Uploaded January 12, 2026 | 25:26-25:29
“Increasing the minimum wage.”
FULL REMARKS: Elizabeth Warren Issues Blunt Message To The Democratic Party About Its Future | Uploaded January 12, 2026 | 25:28-25:31
“Sinema faced no consequences from her president or her leaders in Washington.”
FULL REMARKS: Elizabeth Warren Issues Blunt Message To The Democratic Party About Its Future | Uploaded January 12, 2026 | 27:24-27:32
“Millions of working Americans who have not seen a minimum wage increase in almost two decades are still waiting for Democrats to deliver.”
FULL REMARKS: Elizabeth Warren Issues Blunt Message To The Democratic Party About Its Future | Uploaded January 12, 2026 | 27:56-28:05
“We refused to rubber stamp Trump's budget unless he rolled back his health care cuts.”
FULL REMARKS: Elizabeth Warren Issues Blunt Message To The Democratic Party About Its Future | Uploaded January 12, 2026 | 28:29-28:35
“Public polling shows that voters supported us putting up a real fight to actually lower their costs.”
FULL REMARKS: Elizabeth Warren Issues Blunt Message To The Democratic Party About Its Future | Uploaded January 12, 2026 | 28:49-28:59
“In January of 2026, we're putting together, the foundations of how Democrats are going to run in the 2026 election.”
FULL REMARKS: Elizabeth Warren Issues Blunt Message To The Democratic Party About Its Future | Uploaded January 12, 2026 | 33:52-34:01
“Our economic agenda is about working people and not about pulling back on the agenda in order to attract more wealthy donors.”
FULL REMARKS: Elizabeth Warren Issues Blunt Message To The Democratic Party About Its Future | Uploaded January 12, 2026 | 34:08-34:19
“Donald Trump stood up pretty much every single day for a solid year and promised that on day one, he would lower costs for American…”
FULL REMARKS: Elizabeth Warren Issues Blunt Message To The Democratic Party About Its Future | Uploaded January 12, 2026 | 34:51-35:03
“The cost of groceries is up, the cost of housing is up, the cost of utilities is up, the cost of health care is up, and all of those are up…”
FULL REMARKS: Elizabeth Warren Issues Blunt Message To The Democratic Party About Its Future | Uploaded January 12, 2026 | 35:22-35:38
“Donald Trump is doing his best to run America, to work even better for a handful of billionaires, a handful of oil executives, a handful of…”
FULL REMARKS: Elizabeth Warren Issues Blunt Message To The Democratic Party About Its Future | Uploaded January 12, 2026 | 43:08-43:22
“That bill passed the United States Senate unanimously.”
FULL REMARKS: Elizabeth Warren Issues Blunt Message To The Democratic Party About Its Future | Uploaded January 12, 2026 | 46:31-46:36
“It will drive up costs sellers. It will drive up costs for buyers.”
FULL REMARKS: Elizabeth Warren Issues Blunt Message To The Democratic Party About Its Future | Uploaded January 12, 2026 | 47:51-47:56
“Policymakers made a decision, and this was not Republicans or Democrats. It was everybody. They said, we need a Fed that is largely…”
FULL REMARKS: Elizabeth Warren Issues Blunt Message To The Democratic Party About Its Future | Uploaded January 12, 2026 | 49:37-49:47
“Donald Trump has made clear since right at the beginning of his presidency that he wants to be the decision maker on where interest rates…”
FULL REMARKS: Elizabeth Warren Issues Blunt Message To The Democratic Party About Its Future | Uploaded January 12, 2026 | 50:56-51:08
“He's made it clear by threatening to fire Jerome Powell.”
FULL REMARKS: Elizabeth Warren Issues Blunt Message To The Democratic Party About Its Future | Uploaded January 12, 2026 | 51:10-51:14
“He's made it clear by threatening to fire Lisa Cook, another Federal Reserve governor.”
FULL REMARKS: Elizabeth Warren Issues Blunt Message To The Democratic Party About Its Future | Uploaded January 12, 2026 | 51:13-51:19
“He's made it clear by issuing a statement that says he's not going to nominate anybody to the Fed as chair who doesn't agree with him all of…”
FULL REMARKS: Elizabeth Warren Issues Blunt Message To The Democratic Party About Its Future | Uploaded January 12, 2026 | 51:29-51:41
“What Trump is trying to do is terrible for our economy, but it undermines America.”
FULL REMARKS: Elizabeth Warren Issues Blunt Message To The Democratic Party About Its Future | Uploaded January 12, 2026 | 52:57-53:06
“The Fed has been the gold standard for that kind of monetary policy decision making.”
FULL REMARKS: Elizabeth Warren Issues Blunt Message To The Democratic Party About Its Future | Uploaded January 12, 2026 | 53:31-53:39
“It's going to be costly for the United States over a very long arc if Trump gets away with this.”
FULL REMARKS: Elizabeth Warren Issues Blunt Message To The Democratic Party About Its Future | Uploaded January 12, 2026 | 53:50-53:57
“People are across the state country about an out of control ICE.”
FULL REMARKS: Elizabeth Warren Issues Blunt Message To The Democratic Party About Its Future | Uploaded January 12, 2026 | 54:45-54:51
“I believe that we need a lot of revision to those [immigration] laws and restructuring of how we do it.”
FULL REMARKS: Elizabeth Warren Issues Blunt Message To The Democratic Party About Its Future | Uploaded January 12, 2026 | 54:55-55:03
“Donald Trump, Kristi Noem and ICE are not making America safer.”
FULL REMARKS: Elizabeth Warren Issues Blunt Message To The Democratic Party About Its Future | Uploaded January 12, 2026 | 57:02-57:08
“Donald Trump promised that he was going to make Americans safer economically and safer physically.”
FULL REMARKS: Elizabeth Warren Issues Blunt Message To The Democratic Party About Its Future | Uploaded January 12, 2026 | 57:13-57:22
“I've endorsed Peggy Flanagan in Democratic Party primary out in Minnesota.”
FULL REMARKS: Elizabeth Warren Issues Blunt Message To The Democratic Party About Its Future | Uploaded January 12, 2026 | 58:12-58:18
“Peggy Flanagan is a ferocious fighter on behalf of working people and because she doesn't take any corporate PAC money.”
FULL REMARKS: Elizabeth Warren Issues Blunt Message To The Democratic Party About Its Future | Uploaded January 12, 2026 | 58:20-58:30
“Donald Trump has made clear he just wants to be a guy with no constraints, no constraints from law.”
FULL REMARKS: Elizabeth Warren Issues Blunt Message To The Democratic Party About Its Future | Uploaded January 12, 2026 | 58:57-59:04
“A Republican Congress has just bowed down to him [Donald Trump] and said, yes, Mr. President, you can do whatever you want.”
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