As the old saying asserts, politics makes strange bedfellows, and that proposition was brought into stark relief once again this week when one of the Senate's most liberal voices sided with President Donald Trump on a key issue facing the nation.
As Fox Business reports, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) on Friday acknowledged that she is in agreement with the Republican commander in chief's opinion that the federal debt limit should be eliminated once and for all.
The liberal firebrand from Massachusetts has made her position clear when it comes to the debt limit, a mechanism which places a ceiling on the amount of money the Treasury may owe at any one time to pay the country's obligations.
Warren took to X to outline her stance, boldly revealing that she and Trump are of like minds on the issue, saying, “the debt limit should be scrapped to prevent an economic catastrophe.”
She went on to urge Congress to “pass a bipartisan bill and get rid of it forever.”
The lawmaker then took pains to distance herself from Trump despite their agreement on this one, discrete issue, however, attacking the “big, beautiful bill” he currently supports.
“But jacking up the debt limit by $4 trillion to fund more tax breaks for billionaires is an outrage,” Warren added.
It was soon after his November 2024 election to a second term in office that Trump made his stance on the debt limit quite clear, as NBC News noted at the time.
Trump declared in a phone interview with the outlet that eliminating the debt ceiling permanently would represent the “smartest thing [Congress] could do. I would support that entirely.”
The then-president-elect also pointed to the ability to garner bipartisan support for such a push, noting, “The Democrats have said they want to get rid of it. If they want to get rid of it, I would lead the charge.”
Trump went on to suggest that the debt ceiling itself has little practical meaning and that the consequences of its breach are nebulous, at best.
“It doesn't mean anything, except psychologically,” Trump mused.
While it is a rare thing indeed for the likes of Trump and Warren to see eye-to-eye on just about anything, the president referenced the common ground he shares with the senator on this key issue ahead of a Friday press availability.
Emphasizing that he “always agreed with [Warren]” on the debt limit question, Trump highlighted the highly unusual moment of connection with one of the upper chamber's most left-wing members, but whether that will ever translate into a collaborative effort of any sort, only time will tell.
