These Democrats worked with JD Vance in the Senate — and the reviews are mixed

Senator Elizabeth Warren has been one of JD Vance’s sharpest critics since former President Donald Trump picked the Ohio Republican senator as his vice presidential running mate. And that makes sense, given she was an early supporter of Kamala Harris going back to the vice president’s days as attorney general of California.

But back in Washington, the Massachusetts Democrat has happily worked with Vance, as the pair serve on the Senate Banking Committee and co-authored legislation to claw back executive pay for failed banks.

“It’s good legislation,” Warren told The Independent while she rushed out of the Senate after votes on Thursday. “I’m happy to work with anyone.”

The legislation is in line with Vance’s position thatRepublicans should shrug off the more free-market based ideas they’ve espoused over the past 50 years.

“We’re done, ladies and gentlemen, catering to Wall Street,” he said in his speech at the Republican National Convention where he accepted the party’s nomination. “We’ll commit to the working man.”

But while Vance — a former venture capitalist who came to Washington as a MAGA warrior in 2023 — has successfully worked with Warren as he tries to shift the GOP’s positioning on economic policy, other Democrats have mixed reviews about their efforts to join forces, especially now that he’s the vice presidential nominee.

Senator Tim Kaine of Virginia, whom Hillary Clinton picked to be her running mate in 2016 against Trump and Mike Pence, collaborated with Vance on legislation to remove copays for child birth.

“I was very excited to work with him on,” he told The Independent. “So that no, family whatever, you know, feel like ‘oh, wow, to have a child I’m going to be in debt right out of the gate.’ And we