Joe Battenfeld: Elizabeth Warren, increasingly unhinged, irrelevant

Joe Battenfeld, Boston Herald on Feb 13, 2025

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Elizabeth Warren is losing it, reduced to becoming an irrelevant complainer who does nothing for her Massachusetts constituents while railing daily against President Donald Trump.

Nobody even reads Warren’s unhinged letters, except maybe Trump to get a laugh.

She is part of the baggage the Democrats need to throw overboard if they ever want to win again.

Warren has redefined the role of senator as doing virtually nothing for her home state except writing letters and press releases and fundraising emails blasting Trump.

Who elected her to do that?

The Massachusetts senator has long since jumped the shark following her presidential campaign embarrassment in 2020. She finished far behind in her home state and is lucky Massachusetts Republicans have had no one legitimate to challenge her for re-election. Even Massachusetts Democrats are afraid to run against her, though someone like Ayanna Pressley could probably beat her.

Now in the Trump II era, she risks total humiliation and becoming even more of a marginal figure than she already is.

She was exposed by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on her big pharma donors, and now her vaunted consumer protection agency is being dismantled.

Warren is losing her precious Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, targeted by Trump for elimination, and she’s vowing to stop the president. She held a “rally” in front of the bureau on Monday and promised to protect it from Trump’s budget cutting.

“Republicans have failed to gut it in Congress and in the courts,” she said. “They will fail again.”

But the Trump administration led by Elon Musk is actually shutting down the CFPB, shutting off its web site and ordering the agency to stop any new investigations.

“CFPB RIP,” Musk wrote on X last week.

In an email, Russell Vought, director of the Office of Management and Budget, ordered Warren’s brainchild to “cease all supervision and examination activity.” And in a post on social media, Vought said CFPB would not get its next round of funding from the Federal Reserve.

“This spigot, long contributing to CFPB’s unaccountability, is now being turned off,” he said.

Vought joined the Trump administration as head of the OMB in January, and has made getting rid of Warren’s consumer protection bureau one of his top priorities.

For Trump, it’s personal. The president has long feuded with Warren over everything from her claims of Native American heritage to her constant, over the top whining on social media and in fundraising posts.

But since Republicans here are too weak to take her seat, Trump now has to be satisfied with torpedoing her beloved consumer agency which she has taken a personal interest in.

It’s a battle Trump is destined to win since Warren, now with the minority party in the Senate, lacks the clout or support with the American people to stop him.

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