Elizabeth Warren Platform

Elizabeth Warren

Candidate Status: RunningWarren continues to outpace her competitors on policy, most recently laying out an affordable housing plan. The Massachusetts senator is targeting voters who seek progressive purity from their 2020 champion. But unlike Democratic Socialist Sanders, the 69-year-old Warren is a capitalist at heart, having spent a career trying to make the system work for working people. Before becoming a senator, Warren launched the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. And in March, she unveiled a plan to use antitrust authority to break up Big Tech. Warren has raised $6 million from 135,000 donors. Signature Policy: Warren wants to address American inequality with a wealth tax, imposed annually on “ultra-millionaires,” to pay for benefits, including universal free or low-cost childcare, for “yacht-less Americans.” Fortunes greater than $50 million would be taxed at 2 percent. Billionaires would pay 3 percent. The proposal has greater than 60 percent support and would raise $2.75 trillion over 10 years.
Signature Apology: Warren has apologized for conflating “family stories” about Cherokee heritage with native identity. “I am sorry,” Warren said, “for furthering confusion on tribal sovereignty and tribal citizenship and harm that resulted.”
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