User:Informant16/Senate career of Elizabeth Warren

Elizabeth Warren was elected to the Senate in 2012.

On April 19, Warren tweeted criticism of the Ted Cruz presidential campaign releasing an email listing the candidate's sacrifices: "We’re supposed to pity you because trying to be the leader of the free world is hard?! 2 words: Boo hoo."

On June 12, hours after 50 people were killed in the Orlando nightclub shooting, including the perpetrator, Warren said, "Yesterday I was in Boston for the pride parade. And when I go to the pride parade, I don't march in the pride parade, I dance in the pride parade. It is a celebration. Then wake up this morning to the harsh reminder of the reality that's still out there." Warren spoke on the Senate floor three days later, saying "the members of this Congress will have blood on our hands" if they did not pass gun control legislation.

Warren attended the Donald Trump's inauguration. Days later, after the new president issued executive orders in favor of his pledged immigration policies, Warren released a statement: "None of President Trump’s actions today will make us safer." While speaking to a crowd in Boston on January 29, two days after President Trump issued Executive Order 13769, Warren said, "We will not stop fighting until this executive order is tossed in the dust bin of history where it belongs."

On February 7, 2017, Republicans in the Senate voted that Warren had violated Senate rule 19 during the debate on attorney general nominee Sen. Jeff Sessions, claiming that she impugned his character when she quoted statements made about Sessions by Coretta Scott King and Ted Kennedy. "Mr. Sessions has used the awesome power of his office to chill the free exercise of the vote by black citizens in the district he now seeks to serve as a federal judge. This simply cannot be allowed to happen," King wrote in a 1986 letter to Sen. Strom Thurmond, which Warren attempted to read on the Senate floor. This action prohibited Warren from further participating in the debate on Sessions' nomination for United States Attorney General. She instead stepped into a nearby room and continued reading King's letter while streaming live on the Internet.

On March 1, in a series of tweets, Warren called for Attorney General Sessions to resign and for the usage of a special prosecutor in the investigation of Trump's administration having ties to Russia. On March 15, after President Trump's travel ban was blocked a second time, Warren tweeted that the "ban is still a recruiting tool for ISIS. Still a betrayal of our values. Still doesn't keep us safe." At a March 22 rally with Sandrers, Warren critiqued U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Jay Clayton: "We cannot afford to have an SEC chairman who will not stand up to Wall Street."

On April 6, after Senate Republicans invoked the "nuclear option" in the confirmation of Gorsuch, Warren tweeted, "Changing the rules to jam through a right-wing, corporate-owned judge means the GOP will have to own the Gorsuch Court." On April 13, after the Nangarhar airstrike, Warren told reporters, "As is the case with every part of Trump’s foreign policy, we are all trying to understand: What is the strategy? If we can’t figure out what it means, it’s sort of hard to make that a message." On April 18, Warren dismissed that concerns for President Trump's tax returns had ceased during an appearance on NBC's Today: "No, the issue is not over. "He promised during the campaign that he would reveal his taxes." On April 27, Warren indicated she was "troubled" by a stated 400,000 USD former President Obama would be receiving in the fall for a speech at a Wall Street conference. On April 29, coinciding with the People's Climate March, Warren released a Twitter video promising to defend students after students wrote essays in favor of climate change: "I'm fighting for you, I'm fighting for your families and I'm fighting so you'll have a better future."

On May 1, responding to President Trump mentioning she might launch a presidential bid and calling her out of name while speaking to the NRA days prior, Warren said, "No matter how many slurs he throws or 3 a.m. tweets he does, right now, he’s got power. We’ve got to stay focused on what he actually does because now it’s really about accountability." May 3, during a speech to the EMILY's List gala, Warren stated, "The way that things are going, if the next three years and 261 days are like Donald Trump's first 100 days, I wonder if America will ever be ready for a male president again." On May 10, the day after President Trump dismissed FBI Director James Comey, Warren told CNN the firing was due to Trump wanting "to cut off any investigation." On May 12, Warren delivered the commencement address at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. In reference to Comey's firing, Warren said, "I'm trying to keep this apolitical but I can't help myself ... the principle that no one, no one in this country is above the law and we need a Justice Department, not an obstruction of justice department." On May 19, during her delivery of the commencement address at Wheelock College, Warren said policymakers were determining student loans and public school support. On May 23, in response to the Trump administration releasing proposed budget cuts to Social Security, Warren released a Twitter video noting the president's campaign promise to not cut Social Security and denouncing the proposal: "We don’t break our promises to seniors. We don’t break our promises to our friends, our neighbors. That cannot happen on our watch. We fight back." On May 31, during a San Francisco event, Warren said the allegations of collusion between Trump administration officials and the Russian government were worse than the Watergate scandal for containing "connections to a foreign power".

On June 1, after President Trump withdrew the United States from the Paris Agreement, Warren said the choice was a "big gift to Republican donors." In an interview on CBS This Morning on June 16, two days after the 2017 Congressional baseball shooting, Warren said politicians should "all have to take responsibility for what we say" and condemned a health care bill crafted by 13 of her Republican colleagues with bipartisanship: "This is a bill that's going to touch every American family." On June 27, Warren advocated for an advancement of a single payer healthcare system while speaking to the Wall Street Journal.