They are the Odd Couple of the United States Senate. She is a progressive Democrat and senior senator from true-blue Massachusetts, he a nationalist Republican and junior senator from ever-reddening Ohio. She has a 100 per cent rating from the National Abortion Rights Action League; he is ‘100 per cent pro-life’. She wants a path to citizenship for undocumented aliens; he wants a wall and to double the border patrol. She backs a federal assault weapons ban; his hero is his grandmother, who owned 19 handguns.
Although hailing from different sides of the culture wars, each is articulating material concerns that matter much more to the lives of Americans than whether Bud Light is woke
No, Elizabeth Warren and JD Vance couldn’t be more different, and yet the two have developed an unlikely alliance against the excesses of corporate America. Politico calls them ‘the new power couple taking on Wall Street’ for their work on the Failed Bank Executives Clawback Act (FBECA), a regulatory bill brought forward in response to the March collapse of Silicon Valley Bank.
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