Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) has a big new idea: She wants to directly tax the assets of the richest Americans. Her associates are calling it the “ultra-millionaire tax.” This is not crazy. Taxes on wages and income are common, including taxes on the money...
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) has just introduced a tax idea this country desperately needs: a tax on high-end wealth. It’s an idea that’s well-crafted for our time, one that promises to add fairness to an unfair tax code, raise significant,...
WASHINGTON — Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., pressed the five largest U.S. retail banks Wednesday on details about what the firms are doing to reduce the effects of the partial government shutdown on furloughed government employees.
Warren, a member of...
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) would like the federal government to start manufacturing prescription drugs when the market fails and prices for certain medications become unaffordable. It’s an interesting idea, experts who lean right and left agree. But...
Today, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) doubled down on her strategy to fix America’s housing crisis. Along with Rep. Cedric Richmond (D-LA) and Rep. Gwen Moore (D-WI), she introduced the American Housing and Economic Mobility Act to the House, a companion to a Senate bill...
Four prominent Democratic senators on Thursday asked the inspector general of the Department of Homeland Security to broaden an ongoing investigation into contracting and hurricane relief problems in Puerto Rico.
More than a year after Hurricane Maria’s devastating...
Warren is proposing to break the grip of billionaire campaign donors and corporate interests on US foreign policy. Americans who seek an enlightened alternative to the crudely nationalist and frequently antidemocratic ideology of Trumpism, and to a broader misdirection of...
“His actual policies aren’t stopping [GM] or others like them from continuing to put corporate profits ahead of American workers.” Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) isn’t ready to cede trade policy themes to President Donald Trump. In a speech set to...
Congress members called for executives at the utility company to blame for September’s natural gas explosions and fires in Massachusetts to step down Monday as they held a special hearing into the disaster. The six House and Senate members from...
Senator Elizabeth Warren calls for six companies to contribute to new hardship fund for Toys “R” Us workers. Warren says it’s “inexcusable” for investors in defunct toyseller to withhold contributions. Urges other firms that were involved with company to contribute...
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., has accused Navient’s chief executive of false statements related to allegations of improper practices facing the student loan servicer. In a letter to Navient CEO Jack Remondi, Warren claims that he denied the merits of a...