Senator Elizabeth Warren
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They got no reason to make new stuff.
Just be the giant and stomp out the competition.
So part of what's happening just over the last few months since drop has come in has been it is open season for giants to merge and become giants.
even bigger giants for private equity to come in and do roll-ups.
And the other thing is to engage in practices that undermine competition, corruption.
Look, if the way you get ahead in America as a big corporation is to go spend a million dollars
for a dinner with Donald Trump is to put a billion dollars into his crypto doodah, is to offer a bribe to the head of ICE.
If that's how you get ahead in America, that doesn't make markets stronger and we don't get the benefits of markets.
So a world in which
Mergers have taken off like crazy, and corruption is swirling around us in ways we've never seen before.
It's not pro-market.
The people who are fighting against that are Democrats.
The Republicans in Congress won't even say boo about it.
Who do you think is actually leading the Democratic Party right now?
Right now?
I think it's everybody.
And I actually think that's right at this moment.
We've got 47 Democrats or independents who are with the Democrats in the United States Senate.
We need every one of them, all hands on deck.
The Republicans are running out of money to fund the government.