Warren has expressed interest in being Biden's Treasury secretary

[left-of-center2012]

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) has expressed interest in serving as Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden’s Treasury secretary if he defeats President Trump in next week’s race for the White House, Politico reported, citing three unnamed Democratic officials. “She wants it,” two of the officials told the outlet.

The Treasury Department is set to play a pivotal role for Americans amid the economic hits from the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

Politico reported that Warren will make her case for the role if Biden wins the presidential election. Other potential candidates for the Treasury secretary include Federal Reserve Governor Lael Brainard; former Treasury Department official Sarah Bloom Raskin; and Roger Ferguson, former Federal Reserve vice chairman and current TIAA CEO.

Another Democratic source told Politico that if Warren is not nominated to be the Treasury secretary under the potential Biden administration, she would seek a seat on the Senate Finance Committee.

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/523508-warren-has-expressed-interest-in-being-bidens-treasury-secretary-report

[captain queeg]

1. Billionaires are squirming

[Seasider]

2. Doesn't her state have a Republican Governor now?

Otherwise I think she’d be a great Treasury Sec.

[LizBeth]

4. Something baout the Dems being the strong majority and they will seat the person, not the Republican

Gov. Something like that. Biden nor warren would put the senate in jeopardy of losing a seat.

[Statistical]

8. The govenor can promise anything he want and it won't be binding.

The millisecond she steps down a die hard Republican will get the seat.

[LizBeth]

12. I will leave it to Biden and Warren. I am pretty sure neither will put the seat at risk.

[Statistical]

13. I agree. Which is why Warren will remain a Senator as least through her current term.

[Green Line]

6. Yes

And he gets to appoint her replacement

[LizBeth]

3. Works for me. Her seat will have a majority Dems filling it and not The Republican Gov.

[Green Line]

5. Nope

Charlie Baker gets to fill the seat until a special election, then if he decides to run he’ll most likely win, he’s very popular here. No matter how moderate he acts, he’s a Republican.

[LizBeth]

7. Nope with the majority of dems in senate they can change the rule or something. Biden nor Warren

are going to put the senate seat at risk and I trust they know what they are doing more than those on the net. The same they did in N Carolina

[Statistical]

10. There is no changing "the rules". The senate doesn't get to decide.

The states decide and the state says the governor appoints a replacement.

[Statistical]

9. She is more than qualified but sorry no. We can't lose any Senate seats.

Senators in Republican controlled states should be on the "sorry automatic no" list.

[blueniteflower]

11. MA resident here

If Baker tries to appoint a R, the legislature will just change the rules so they can pick. I bet Joe Kennedy will run for her seat and win. Baker is popular, but not enough to get voted to federal level. He won’t beat Joe Kennedy

[StClone]

14. Warren was my pick for POTUS

Then if not Warren, Kamala. Harris got the VP and Warren had better get her pick of positions in the Biden era. She is too good, too smart, too progressive, too caring, too be denied a plum spot. Treasury would be great.


One thing I wish she'd go after in time is our money disappearing into the Pentagon. Trillions unaccounted for. Dark dangerous projects which Eisenhower warned of the "military–industrial–congressional complex." There appears to be ultra secretive fiefdoms absconding money doing stuff which must be ended and then made public. Trillions is real money which should be going to America betterment not some military contracts super secret operations, no-bid, off the books and endanging us all.

[LAS14]

15. It's gotta depend on what kind of Dem senate majority we can put together. MA...

... has a Republican governor.

[Hekate]

16. This is not the time for leaks like that. We need to win first.