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Elizabeth Warren: “We refused to rubber stamp Trump's budget unless he rolled…”

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

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Elizabeth Warren Speaks on the Future of the Democratic Party

Published | Video Starts at 24:08

And that means even when we fail, we leave everything on the field. One moment in 2025 when voters actually saw Democrats fighting for them was the government shutdown. We refused to rubber stamp Trump's budget unless he rolled back his health care cuts. and we said so loudly and unapologetically every single day. And yeah, a small group of moderate Democrats ended up blinking. So we didn't get the health care wins we could have. (24:08–24:14)

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Asserts that Democrats refused to approve Trump's budget without rolling back health care cuts.

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