Sen. Elizabeth Warren said Thursday President Trump should focus more on ending the government shutdown than her 2020 aspirations.
“[H]ow about the president spends his time getting the government back open,” Warren told an NBC reporter Thursday. The government went into a partial shutdown before Christmas when congressional Democrats and President Trump could not agree on a spending bill could that would secure border wall funding.
The Democratic senator from Massachusetts made her comments in response to Trump tweeting out a parody slogan that made reference to her claims of Native American heritage.
The image, which was originally posted by the Daily Wire and has been put on T-shirts for sale on Amazon, says “Warren 1/2020th.”
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 3, 2019
The slogan was revealed after Warren announced an exploratory committee for a 2020 presidential bid, and it pokes fun at her DNA test, which showed she could be as little as 1/1024th Native American.
Warren was among the first major-name Democratic politicians to officially enter the race for president in 2020 in a candidate pool that is expected to be crowded.
“Donald Trump can bluster forever, but it doesn’t change the underlying reality,” Warren said when asked how she would handle Trump’s attacks the next two years leading up to the 2020 elections. “Across this country wages are flat, across this country the cost of health care, the cost of sending your kids to college, the cost of housing, the cost of retirement are going up, up, up. Those are the things that matter to hard working families.”
In her video announcement on Monday, Warren made a appeal to middle-class voters, who she said were losing economic advantage in the current political climate.
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Asked how she’ll navigate attacks from Pres Trump on her heritage for the next two years, here’s what @ewarren said: pic.twitter.com/Z2hJ2GdCtJ
— Frank Thorp V (@frankthorp) January 3, 2019
