Sen. Elizabeth Warren Elizabeth WarrenHillicon Valley: Subpoenas for Facebook, Google and Twitter on the cards | Wray rebuffs mail-in voting conspiracies | Reps. raise mass surveillance concerns On The Money: Anxious Democrats push for vote on COVID-19 aid | Pelosi, Mnuchin ready to restart talks | Weekly jobless claims increase | Senate treads close to shutdown deadline Democratic senators ask inspector general to investigate IRS use of location tracking service MORE (D-Mass.) says President Trump’s decision to withdraw the U.S. from the Paris climate deal is a “big gift to Republican donors.”

“This isn’t jobs versus the environment,” she said Thursday, according to The San Francisco Chronicle. “This is a big gift to Republican donors.”

“In this democracy, government can be seized by a handful of people with money who can get government to tilt in their direction,” Warren added. “Money slithers through Washington like a snake.”

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Warren added that with Republicans in charge, “every time it’s how can we help out corporate America?”

“[Congress] used to filter things by asking if it helps working families,” she said at the Palace of Fine Arts Theater in San Francisco.

Warren has long been a voice critical of the influence of money and corporations over politics and government. She is considered a leading candidate to challenge Trump for the White House in 2020.

Much of the business community rallied against Trump when it came to his decision to leave the Paris climate deal. Tech companies such as Apple, Facebook and Amazon also criticized the move. So did Goldman Sachs leader Lloyd Blankfein. Even energy companies such as Exxon and Shell pushed for the United States to remain in the deal.

In leaving the agreement, Trump said he was setting aside an unfair deal that hurt U.S. workers. He pledged to try to negotiate a new deal, though that was quickly rejected by other countries.

The nonbinding 2015 deal consisted of individual greenhouse gas limits that each signatory nation determined for itself.

The U.S. under former President Barack Obama Barack Hussein ObamaObama warns of a 'decade of unfair, partisan gerrymandering' in call to look at down-ballot races Quinnipiac polls show Trump leading Biden in Texas, deadlocked race in Ohio Poll: Trump opens up 6-point lead over Biden in Iowa MORE had pledged to cut its greenhouse gas emissions 26 percent to 28 percent by 2025.