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Warren wants answers from Social Security chief on phone wait times
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) is asking Social Security Administration (SSA) Commissioner Frank Bisignano to provide additional information about the wait times for phone calls, amid reports of discrepancies in data. In a letter sent Sunday evening to Bisignano, provided exclusively to The Hill, Warren followed up on her meeting with the SSA chief Wednesday, when, the senator said, she secured a commitment from Bisignano “that SSA would undergo a public audit by the Inspector General … Continue Reading
July 24, 2025
Warren asks Social Security's inspector general to evaluate customer service amid agency overhaul
Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren is asking the Social Security Administration’s inspector general to audit the agency’s customer service amid concerns that the Trump administration-spurred reorganization has hurt the agency’s ability to assist the public. Warren wants to know whether telephone and in-person wait times and other key metrics have worsened and how Commissioner Frank Bisignano is calculating the data, according to a letter the Democratic senator sent to the inspector general … Continue Reading
July 23, 2025
Variety: Elizabeth Warren on Colbert ‘Late Show’ Cancellation: Is the Paramount Trump Payoff a Bribe?
President Donald Trump and CBS parent company Paramount want you to think that “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” was canceled for “purely financial” reasons. Really? During the 2024 election, Donald Trump sued CBS, making claims CBS called “meritless.” Legal experts could see from a mile away that Trump’s claims were bogus. Paramount seemed ready to fight the allegations, and it looked like they’d win that fight handily. Then Trump took office in January 2025. From the first moments of … Continue Reading
July 23, 2025
Rolling Stone: Elizabeth Warren Calls Out Paramount and Other Companies Caving to Trump
"These companies may decide that it is in their financial interests to ease up on criticism of Trump, but if they do so they forfeit the role that the media has played in our democracy." On Tuesday night, President Donald Trump announced on Truth Social that Paramount and CBS News had agreed to settle a lawsuit he brought against them for way more money than originally reported. "Paramount/CBS/60 Minutes have today paid $16 Million Dollars in settlement, and we also anticipate receiving $20 … Continue Reading
July 22, 2025
Politico: Elizabeth Warren vows to fight government funding bill
Sen. Elizabeth Warren said Tuesday she’ll vote against the Senate’s first batch of government funding bills, signaling early hardball by Democrats ahead of a shutdown deadline 10 weeks away. In a statement, the Massachusetts Democrat and progressive standard-bearer cited Trump administration moves to cut and freeze VA funding as the reason for opposing bipartisan funding bills on the Senate floor this week. … Read the full story … Continue Reading
July 22, 2025
Axios: Scoop: Warren, Social Security chief to meet over agency concerns
Social Security commissioner Frank Bisignano will huddle with Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) in Washington on Wednesday amid deep Democratic concerns about the agency's cuts to services, Axios has learned. Why it matters: Warren will have the chance to air grievances about everything from staffing cuts to phone wait times in a meeting that follows incessant pressure from Democrats on Capitol Hill. … Read the full story … Continue Reading
July 21, 2025
The Washington Post: Senators press incoming CBS owner on Trump’s claim of settlement side deal
Three liberal senators want to know whether there is any truth to President Donald Trump's claim that Paramount is actually paying him about $32 million to settle his lawsuit against the company, double what was announced by the CBS parent company. In a late-night statement July 1, Paramount said it would pay $16 million "in total" to settle the lawsuit, which stemmed from CBS's editing of a "60 Minutes" interview featuring then-Vice President Kamala Harris. Two nights later, Trump said he … Continue Reading
July 21, 2025
Fortune: Trade partners have realized America is ‘simply not reliable’ after Trump’s tariff regime, says Elizabeth Warren—believing impact will be felt for generations to come
Economists are split on how damaging President Trump’s tariff agenda may turn out to be. Some are worried it will boost inflation, while others argue a universal 10% hike to imports introduced months ago have barely blipped in inflation data. Indeed, markets have now generally begun to look through the tariff back and forth, and are less concerned by the ultimate fallout than earlier in the Trump 2.0 administration. Goldman Sachs, for example, wrote this week that even a 15% universal tariff … Continue Reading
July 17, 2025
Business Insider: Student-loan borrowers are at high risk if Trump dismantles the Department of Education, 11 organizations told Elizabeth Warren
From higher student-loan balances to lower college attendance, education groups have a list of concerns with President Donald Trump's plans to dismantle the Department of Education. Sen. Elizabeth Warren released a report on Thursday - exclusively viewed by Business Insider - compiling responses she received from 11 national organizations regarding the impact of Trump's education plans on students and borrowers. The fate of student-loan borrowers was among the groups' top concerns. The … Continue Reading
July 16, 2025
CBS News: Critics of Trump's presidential library fundraising say "there are no rules"
President Trump's efforts to direct millions of dollars to his future presidential library has drawn fresh attention to a lack of visibility into the identities or potential interests of the donors who are funding it, a longstanding Washington concern facing past presidents from both parties. Two prominent Senate Democrats say they are preparing to introduce a bill Wednesday that would regulate fundraising for presidential libraries, according to documents shared with CBS News. … Read the … Continue Reading
July 16, 2025
CNN: Warren warns Trump’s policies could lead to another economic crash
Elizabeth Warren has seen this movie before. As a Harvard professor, Warren rang the alarm bell in the lead up to the 2008 financial crisis. Now a veteran senator, she is ringing that bell again. Where President Donald Trump’s sees his tariffs, tax cuts and sweeping deregulatory effort as the cornerstones of an economic agenda for a new “golden age,” the Massachusetts senator sees something far more ominous. “They all create this toxic stew that just takes one more push, and we’re looking … Continue Reading
July 15, 2025
HuffPost: Companies Sucking Up To Trump Are Taking It To A Whole New Level
Companies hoping for favorable outcomes from the Trump administration have pledged to give at least $63 million to Donald Trump’s future presidential library, according to a new analysis from Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.). Beyond that, other promised gifts and in-kind donations from special interest groups bring the total value of gifts pouring into Trump’s future library to at least half a billion dollars. “The timing of these donations - coming while Trump sits in office and makes … Continue Reading
July 15, 2025
MarketWatch: Warren slams Trump policy restarting interest on millions of student-loan borrowers
A group of prominent senators is pushing the Trump administration to abandon its decision to start charging interest for nearly 8 million student-loan borrowers. In a letter sent to Secretary of Education Linda McMahon on Monday, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a Massachusetts Democrat, Sen. Chuck Schumer, a New York Democrat and the Senate minority leader, and Sen. Bernie Sanders, a Vermont independent who causes with the Democrats, criticized a decision announced by the Education Department last … Continue Reading
July 14, 2025
Sens. Warren and Wyden demand info on SSA reassignments
SSA workers say the recent decision to involuntarily reassign 1,000 field office employees to man the 1-800 number flies in the face of leadership’s rosy pronouncements and further degrades service. A pair of Democratic senators on Monday fired a bevy of questions to Social Security Commissioner Frank Bisignano about the agency’s decision last week to reassign 1,000 field office employees to help answer calls to the agency’s 1-800 number, despite purported gains in customer service … Continue Reading
July 10, 2025
Yahoo Finance: Warren wants Trump’s FTC to see if companies are using tariffs as cover for price gouging
Sen. Elizabeth Warren and 15 other Democratic lawmakers are renewing a call for an investigation this week into whether "tariff enabled price-gouging" is set to impact consumers in the years ahead as President Trump's trade moves continue to ripple through the US economy. This week's call came in a new letter, shared first with Yahoo Finance, where Warren and her colleagues are asking the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to look into what they say is growing evidence that "hypothetical warnings … Continue Reading
July 03, 2025
ABC News: 175+ Democrats supporting NAACP suit against dismantling Department of Education
More than 175 Democratic members of Congress are filing an amicus brief on Thursday opposing the Trump administration's overhaul of the U.S. Department of Education. “The law couldn't be clearer: the president does not have the authority to unilaterally abolish the Department of Education,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren wrote in a statement first obtained by ABC News, adding, “Donald Trump is not a king, and he cannot single-handedly cut off access to education for students across this … Continue Reading
July 01, 2025
Politico: Senators slam Lloyd Austin over new consulting firm
Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Rick Scott are blasting former Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin for starting a D.C. consulting firm after saying he would not become a lobbyist after leaving the government. "[T]his move is particularly disappointing because you made a clear promise during your nomination hearing to uphold the public trust," the bipartisan duo said in a letter to Austin on Monday obtained by POLITICO. … Read the full story … Continue Reading
July 01, 2025
Politico Pro: Morning Tech: FIRST IN POLITICO: ANSWERS, PLS
In an 11th-hour blitz of letters to top tech CEOs last night, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) is demanding they disclose how much their companies stand to benefit if a key tax break is restored as part of Trump's megabill. Tech emerged as a massive winner from Trump's 2017 tax cuts, and Warren warned it could walk away with a windfall again. She accused Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, Apple’s Tim Cook, Alphabet’s Sundar Pichai, Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg and even Tesla’s Elon Musk of extensive lobbying to … Continue Reading
June 27, 2025
USA Today: How long will you wait for Social Security help? Why it's anybody's guess.
Members of Congress and advocates say the Social Security Administration is providing the public with misleading information about how long it will take to resolve their problems. Over the last several weeks, the agency has stopped making public 34 real-time performance metrics about things like how long they will have to wait to reach a live person on the phone, and how long applications for new senior benefits or social security benefits take to be approved. The metrics have been used for … Continue Reading
June 27, 2025
Advocate: A bipartisan effort looks to rectify tax inequities for same-sex married couples
A bipartisan group of lawmakers has introduced legislation helping bring financial equality to same-sex married couples. Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Republican Sen. Susan Collins of Maine reintroduced the Refund Equality Act on Thursday, the 10-year anniversary of the landmark Obergefell v. Hodges Supreme Court ruling, which legalized marriage equality as a constitutional right. … Read the full story … Continue Reading