Elizabeth Warren pledges to work with Donald Trump to 'rebuild our economy'

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) extended an olive branch to Donald Trump on Wednesday for the sake of the economy. In a statement to The Boston Globe, Warren — who became a strong surrogate for Hillary Clinton during the general election — was candid about the fact she "didn't want to see Donald Trump win yesterday," but said she will "respect this result."
"President-elect Trump promised to rebuild our economy for working people, and I offer to put aside our differences and work with him on the task," said Warren, who has previously called Trump a "thin-skinned bully" and ordered him to put on his "big-boy pants."
The gap between Trump and Warren will be a big one to bridge, for more reasons than their past name-calling. Warren, who has focused her career on cracking down on Wall Street, has heavily criticized Trump's economic plan. In August, she slammed his economic proposals to "'cut regulations massively,'" and deemed his plan to be "written by rich corporate insider advisers to make the economy even greater for rich corporate insiders."
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