Elizabeth Warren Wants Treasury Secretary If Biden Wins: Report

MASSACHUSETTS — U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren is reportedly making a hard push to be the next Treasury secretary if Joe Biden wins the White House, something that would potentially provide Biden with his first major intraparty squabble.

Warren will be pushing for the position if Biden is victorious next week — or whenever a victor is declared — three Democratic officials who spoke with Warren confidants told Politico.

Warren's interest in the Cabinet post isn't exactly a surprise. She's been floated as a possible candidate ever since bowing out of the Democratic primary, having emerged as a close adviser on economic policy.

But Biden is positioning himself to bridge the gap across the aisle to Republican lawmakers at a time of deep partisanship, and Warren might be a hard sell.

Conservatives have framed Warren as something of a boogeyman in years past, because of her hardline stances on Wall Street and progressive policy proposals. The financial sector would almost certainly be subject to stricter regulation under Warren's watch.

Warren's reputation has even cost her with Democrats. President Barack Obama, wary of her prickly relationship with Republicans, didn't appoint her to oversee the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau that she essentially created in 2011.

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