Elizabeth Warren
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Let's not do things that are hard, would be unattractive to Reid Hoffman and to the billionaires of the world.
No, let's just take a very soft approach to this.
Or are we going to be the party that says, damn,
We can see what is wrong.
This economic game is rigged.
And we've got good concrete proposals to fight back, and we've got the courage to fight it.
In other words, Democratic Party has a choice to make.
We can follow an agenda that is comfortable for a handful of billionaires, or we can follow an agenda that actually works for tens of millions of working people.
And for me, you want to win elections?
Then by golly, instead of choosing the billionaires, how about if we choose real people?
So let's do a little history on this story.
Dating back years, I've talked about cap on credit card fees.
I mean, way, way, way, way back.
Remember that today Americans are paying about $150 billion a year in interest on credit cards.
The giant banks are just rolling in the dough from what they pull in on credit card interest rates.
About a year ago, Donald Trump pops up and says he's interested in putting a cap on credit card fees.
Senator Hawley.
Remember that?
And I immediately said, whoa, Simon, let's do this.
And what do we hear from Donald Trump after that?