Sen. Warren Warns Republican Tactics Will Put 1M Out Of Work
Anderson Cooper featured Sen. Elizabeth Warren last night to talk about what she expects from the budget negotiations.
"The Republican leadership both in the House and Senate said they are not interested in changes to Social Security and Medicare. Do you believe them?" Cooper asked.
"Well, you know, I don't know what their plan is here. What the president is trying to do, for example, with Medicare is to say we can extend the life of Medicare by just changing how much we're paying the drug companies, negotiating for drug prices and bring down costs for American families," she said.
"You know that $35 cap on insulin was a great down payment and shows Joe Biden doing what Joe Biden does best, and that is out there fighting for working families. What have the Republicans got to offer on that? They've got to offer 2.5 million people being pushed out of work, and that's -- that's bad for our economy and sure as heck bad for those millions of families that lose jobs."
"This is obviously a kind of opening salvo. Republicans haven't put forward their proposals yet. Negotiations haven't begun. President Biden and House Speaker McCarthy have both said today they're willing to meet to begin negotiations," Cooper said.
"With the showdown of the debt ceiling, though, looming do you think the White House and Congressional Republicans can actually find a compromise?"