Sen. Elizabeth Warren Elizabeth WarrenNo new taxes for the ultra rich — fix bad tax policy instead Democrats back away from quick reversal of Trump tax cuts It's time for newspapers to stop endorsing presidential candidates MORE (D-Mass.) on Wednesday said the Democratic Party is the "party of opposition," adding that it is her constitutional responsibility to debate the facts about President Trump's Cabinet nominees.

Warren's remark came after Republicans, lead by Majority Leader Mitch McConnell Addison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellSenate Republicans signal openness to working with Biden Hillicon Valley: DOJ indicts Chinese, Malaysian hackers accused of targeting over 100 organizations | GOP senators raise concerns over Oracle-TikTok deal | QAnon awareness jumps in new poll The Hill's Campaign Report: Biden asks if public can trust vaccine from Trump ahead of Election Day | Oklahoma health officials raised red flags before Trump rally MORE (R-Ky.), voted to stop Warren from reading remarks critical of attorney general nominee Sen. Jeff Sessions Jefferson (Jeff) Beauregard SessionsTrump's policies on refugees are as simple as ABCs Ocasio-Cortez, Velázquez call for convention to decide Puerto Rico status White House officials voted by show of hands on 2018 family separations: report MORE (R-Ala.) on the Senate floor.

"Democrats have the minority in the House, the minority in the Senate. But that does not make us the minority party. We are the party of opposition, and that is our job," she told MSNBC.

"But our tools are very limited. We don't have the capacity to stop Jeff Sessions if all the Republicans lock arms."

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Warren said that was seen yesterday with the successful confirmation of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, which passed only after Vice President Mike Pence Michael (Mike) Richard PenceGOP short of votes on Trump's controversial Fed pick Pence seeks to boost Daines in critical Montana Senate race The Hill's Campaign Report: Trump's rally risk | Biden ramps up legal team | Biden hits Trump over climate policy MORE cast a tie-breaking vote.

"We just don't have the votes to be able to stop them if all the Republicans stick together and vote through these terrible nominees," she said.

"And that in fact is exactly what they are doing. They are cramming terrible nominees down the throats of the American people."

Warren said the tool of the Democrats is "the grassroots."

"It's the people who say 'Wait a minute,'" she said. "'This is too far. No, we cannot do this in America.'"

Senators rebuked Warren in a 49-43 party-line vote, rejecting Warren's push to overturn a ruling by Senate Republicans that she had violated the rule during a Senate floor speech. Warren had been reading remarks critical of Sessions made by Coretta Scott King and the late Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.).

The move bars Warren from speaking on the floor until the Senate wraps up its debate on Sessions's nomination.

Warren told MSNBC on Wednesday that "facts may hurt."

"But we're not in the United States Senate to ignore facts. We're in the United States Senate to exercise our constitutional responsibility to advise and consent on nominees," she said.

"And my view is that part of my constitutional responsibility is to consider the facts of what Jeff Sessions did when he was the U.S. Attorney in Alabama."

In another appearance on ABC's "The View," Warren was asked why she so strongly opposes the nomination of Sessions, who has denied he is a "racist."

"Talk is cheap," Warren said. "Actions are what matter."

She added that the character of the nation is not the character of its president.

"It is the character of its people," she said. "That's what really matters."

While Warren says Democrats are the opposition party, the Trump administration has claimed that mantle for another group: the media. Both Trump and White House strategist Steve Bannon have recently claimed that the media is acting like the president's opposition party.