Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), who stopped by Cheddar to discuss her new memoir Persist, first weighed in on Facebook's decision to uphold its suspension of former President Donald Trump.
"Look, I'm glad that he's not on Facebook. I think that he poses a real danger, but I don't think Facebook ought to have this kind of power. We need to break up these giant tech companies, and Facebook is one of them."
Facebook barred Trump from the social media platform in January after the Capitol Hill riots. Warren joined Democrats in condemning Trump for inciting the "insurrection," but said in this case, tech companies are overstepping their bounds. She pointed out that within the company the Oversight Board is often referred to as the "Facebook Supreme Court."
"They are not the Supreme Court. They are a part of a private company," she added.
Pushing Biden
The senator also commented on her proposal to spend $700 billion on a program that would ensure free access to child care for families making up to twice the federal poverty line.
"If we want to have an America with real opportunity for everyone, we need child care," she said. "If we want to have a productive economy, then we need to make it possible for mothers and fathers to go to work."
Formerly a critic of Joe Biden, the progressive lawmaker commended the president's economic policies but said she's still pushing him left on key issues.
"I'm really happy with the direction the president has gone," she said, adding that Biden's campaign agenda was more progressive than it's given credit for, and political circumstances that have only heightened the case for "big structural change."
This is one of the topics of Persist, which, in addition to recounting her failed bid for the Democratic presidential nomination, outlines her political objectives for the future.
One of those goals is canceling $50,000 worth of student loan debt, which is $40,000 more than Biden's current proposal.
"Our families are getting crushed by student loan debt," she said. "I'm going to keep pushing on President Biden, Chuck Schumer, the leader of the United States Senate."
Warren stressed her proposal would go a long way toward closing the racial wealth gap.
The senator supports a 3 percent wealth tax on billionaires to help pay for her plans.
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'I'm Not Worried About Inflation'
As for how these policies would impact the country's fiscal situation, Warren said it wasn't the time to worry about "overheating" the economy.
'I'm not worried about inflation," she said. "Every time we spend money and try to make investments, the Republicans start claiming it's going to create inflation, and for decades now they've just been wrong. It has not had that effect."
If inflation does increase, she added, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and the Federal Reserve have "plenty of tools to bring it under control."
"That's not our problem right now. Our problem right now is that we have gone for 40 years of not making big enough investments in things like infrastructure, not making bigging enough investments in getting our babies and our older kids educated, not making big enough investments in housing."
Presidential Prospects?
Does the release of a book chock full of policy proposals signal a return of presidential ambitions?
Warren told Cheddar that was not on the docket.
"Joe Biden has already said he's running for reelection, and my job is to help him succeed as president," she said. "That's why I'm in this fight. I wrote Persist about the next 100 days, the work we need to do right now to build a future, not just for those at the top, but to build a future for everyone."
