Fighting for working families with Sen. Warren

Elizabeth Warren
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Nobody disagrees with that, Senator, but raising taxes in order to do it?
Good. Oh, dear.
Are you worried that billionaires are going to go hungry?
You know, I watch this race, read all the stories about Cuomo
going in and bending the knee to the billionaires, right?
Adams going in, bending the knee to the billionaires and nothing about you
bending the knee to the billionaires.
And I thought billionaires aren't going to like that.
My view is we're running out of time here.
It is time to get universal child care.
It's why I wanted to come here to be with you.
You inspire me.
When you tell the people of New York City, we can do better.
We can make this a more affordable city.
And when you make child care a key part of that, I'm in all the way.
So how come you won?
You know, we showed that organized people beats organized money.
Well, you know, let me ask you a question,
because you've been at the forefront of this fight for child care for a long time.
People have told you for years that this kind of a vision is unrealistic.
And that's a lot of what we hear when we talk about freezing the rent,
making buses free, universal child care.
They say it's not going to happen. Right.
What do you say to those critics? What have you said?
You ever heard the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau?
Yes, I have.
Do you know what everybody told me about that agency?
Impossible. Can't be done.
Ask for something small.
You know, my view on this is ask for what actually fixes the problem
and then get out there and fight for it.
You know, when Andrew Cuomo gave Elon Musk nine hundred and fifty odd
million dollars in tax credits, there weren't the same questions.
Yeah. Whether it was realistic or reasonable.
Whoa, is that realistic?
But when we're talking about what is truly our most precious resource,
you want to build a successful city, you want to build a successful nation.
What should you be investing in?
You invest in your babies, you invest in your little kids.
You invest in the people who are going to do the work in this city.
Politics is ultimately about our values.
Our budgets are about our values.
So if you really think all we're supposed to be doing is helping
the billionaires have a little smoother path for life, then fine.
Vote for Cuomo.
But if you actually think what our job is,
is to give our kids a chance.
That's that's what this is all about.
I think that running a campaign that talks directly to people
about how unaffordable their lives have become
and that, by golly, you're going to put your shoulder
to the wheel to change that.
You speak to a lot of people.
Maybe you don't have all those millions of dollars in the billionaires backing,
but you have a lot of people who are putting a lot of trust in you,
a lot of hope.
And I want to see this happen.
I'm excited to do this together.
Good.
Do you believe that you could practice your bending the knee?
Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.
I think that's it. Yes, that's it.
Come on. There you go.
Please.
Good. I like that.
