Posted on 10/26/2020 4:03:48 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
WASHINGTON - Progressives are pushing hard to see Elizabeth Warren leading the Treasury Department in an opening salvo of a coming ideological struggle for control of key government posts if Joe Biden wins the presidency.
Donors, activists and leaders on the left want Warren, a Democratic senator from Massachusetts, as treasury secretary, more than a half-dozen of them said. And people Warren has spoken to are under the impression that she wants the job if she is offered it.
"There's a huge gap between Sen. Warren and any other likely candidate," said Larry Cohen, former president of the Communications Workers of America union and a close ally of Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt. "She, first of all, understands finance capital and second of all is prepared to wrangle with it. Some of the other candidates I've heard about are not prepared to wrangle with it."
"Sen. Warren offers a trifecta of policy depth, progressive pro-Scranton values and a proven track record of managing a federal agency to benefit working Americans," said former Rep. Tom Perriello, D-Va. "Nominating her for [attorney general] or Treasury certainly has compelling upsides for a potential transition eager to be ready for making positive impacts on Day One."
If Biden wins, the left will break its election-season truce with him almost immediately to get people it wants in important Cabinet and other government roles and keep out people it views as too cozy with corporate interests.
Activists on the left are focused on the officials who will be making economic policy in places like the Treasury Department and the Council of Economic Advisers, but the Justice Department is also a top priority, while foreign policy and defense are of less interest.
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Under Joe, the short film (video clip) industry will boom in China.
Without Trump’s appointment of Mick Mulvaney as interim director of the CFPB consumer agency, a major train wreck was averted. Leandra English would have been a disaster.
She won’t be Treasury Secretary. She’d actually have to do some work.
There’s a huge gap between Sen. Warren and any other likely candidate,
Yeah. The others are just idiots. She’s an idiot and completely unqualified.
I like how they are totally getting their hopes up and measuring curtains.
It’s going to be awesome.
I’m thinking Secretary of the Interior. Her genealogy would be VERY useful in that department.
She won’t be Treasury Secretary. Biden would have to win.
He won’t.
Well maybe they can bring back the Bureau of Indian Affairs
They are wastimg their time; Tump is not going to appoint her to anything.
Have they ordered fireworks yet? I know where they can get a boat load on the cheap!
She will have to tomahawk and scalp a lot of bankers to get the job.
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