Elizabeth Warren

We are called on again to be a party that shows aggressively we are willing to get in that fight and deliver. And let me give you a great example here. Cost of housing. I don't have to tell you. It's just through the roof everywhere.

Urban, rural, doesn't matter where you are, the cost of housing has gone up dramatically. One of the biggest ways we can bring down cost is to build more supply. We're about 3 million homes short of what we need in America. When I say supply, I mean homes for first-time homebuyers, homes for seniors, homes for people with disabilities, homes for renters. We need more. We need more, more, more. Rural America, urban America. More housing.

Tämän jälkeen, kun Trump oli valittu, republikaatit ottiin ylös, he olivat Houseissa ja Senaattissa, he omaisivat heidät molemmat. Aloin työskennellä taloudenjohtajana. Aloin työskennellä Tim Scottin, republikaanin, joka on bankinjohtajan puolustusjohtaja. Olen demokraattinen.

We put together a bill that is an all-supply bill. It's got about 40 parts to it, and every one of manufactured housing, environmental regulations are all aimed toward building more housing. Are you ready for this? I hope you're sitting down. We managed to get that bill not only through the committee, but through the United States Senate unanimously.

Everybody voted in favor of this. So we got something here that could start making its first step, it's not going to fix everything, but first step in the right direction. And right now the Republicans in the House

are just holding it up. They've hung it up and can't make the thing move forward. All the Democrats are ready to go, but not the Republicans. And what has Donald Trump, who says he worries about housing costs, what has he done to lower costs for the American people? Hasn't lifted a finger.

Tässä minä olen ja tässä näen sen, koska mielestäni tämä on uudistamattomuus. Jos voin saada sen läpi nyt, tänään, minä tekevän sen. Ja ymmärrän, monet demokraatit ja republikaatit tarvitsevat sitä. Ei ole välttämättä. Se ei ole kuitenkaan omistamista. Se on vähentämätöntä amerikkalaisista perheistä.

I will fight for that today and tomorrow and the next day. And if we can get it through, I will celebrate, then get right back to work on how we do step two, to do more of it and more of it and more of it. But we got to have some Republican partners. And if the Republicans won't join us on this, then we hold them accountable in November 2026.

Meidän täytyy tietää, miksi olemme täällä. Ja miksi olen täällä, se on siksi, että pyritään työsuhteisiin työsuhteisiin, ekonomisen turvallisuudesta. Siksi, että ihmiset ovat olleet pysyneitä heikkoja vuosia nyt ja jatkuvat menemään hieman myöhemmin ja myöhemmin myöhemmin. Se on se, mitä demokraatit pitävät tehdä vuonna 2026 ja kaikki vuosien jälkeen.

Koska katsotaan, mitä tapahtuu meidän maailmassa, joten meidän täytyy puhua kaikkea, kuten iso perhekuva. Tiedätkö, se on mielenkiintoista, että olisit käsitellyt sitä eri tavalla. Perhekuva. Mielenkiintoinen käsitellys. Koska mielestäni se on se, mitä yritin tehdä tänä päivänä.

Chuck Schumer on nyt puheenjohtaja, mutta meillä on 47 senaattoreita, jotka ovat demokraattisia, jotka ovat senaattorissa. Meillä on paljon ihmisiä puolestaan. Meidän täytyy kaikki olla yläpuolella. Ja meidän täytyy käydä samaa sääntöä samaan suuntaan. Ja jotenkin minun osa tästä peruskeskustelusta

is to talk about the crucial urgency of getting ourselves focused on costs for families, on how stressed families are, how Republicans have driven up costs, and how Democrats are ready to stand and deliver. And I say this because in a sense,

It's democracy at work. Look back to a year ago. What was Donald Trump saying every single day? That he would lower costs on day one. Yeah, he said a lot of other hateful things, a lot of ugly things. But the thing he said most consistently is that he would lower costs on day one. He gets elected, first interview he gives, he's asked, so why did you win? And he said, because I said I would lower costs on day one.

and yet costs are up for families across the board. Donald Trump has betrayed those families. If democracy really worked, costs would be going down for families. People would be seeing more and more policies, more things happening in Washington or in their states that are lowering costs for them, but they're not. So I think of this moment as when Democrats

have the opportunity to say directly to the American people, we're going to focus on costs, we're going to focus on what you have told us is most important, and we're going to show something else, and it's relevant to what you were asking about. We're going to show we got the fight to deliver.

that we're not going to be sidetracked by billionaire donors, we're not going to be sidetracked by people who say, oh, let's just do a little bit, let's not make this too hard. None of that is going to sidetrack us. We are going to be in this fight, and we're going to be all the way in this fight. And to get this done, it's not one person who's going to deliver for us. It's got to be that all of the Democrats are getting lined up, and we are in this fight. And that was the family conversation.

In fact, let me just pick up on your theme and remind you, so far I've endorsed a candidate in Minnesota in a competitive primary. And her name is Peggy Flanagan. She's lieutenant governor in Minnesota. And I've endorsed her for two reasons. One is she is a ferocious fighter on behalf of working families. I've worked with her for 10 years and just seen her out there over and over.

help get paid family leave through the state legislature, help raise the minimum wage. She's out there for working families. She has the receipts. But the second reason, she takes no corporate PAC money. And to me, that gives me a lot of confidence that when Peggy Flanagan says she's working for your family, it's not just words. She really is walking the walk. She's really putting it all in for your family and not

her message in order to attract billionaire donors. And that was a big part of what my speech was about today, is about in the Democratic Party, we cannot be a party that narrows

that grows up our agenda, that doesn't take on hard questions, that doesn't say, backs off from universal childcare because it might mean raising taxes on billionaires, doesn't back off so that we can continue to attract corporate money, so that we can continue to attract billionaires and CEOs of giant companies. This really is the moment. We decide who we are as Democrats.