Can Democrats actually work with Donald Trump? If liberal lawmakers attempt that they risk angering their base by collaborating with a president millions of Americans voted against. But the party may have little choice following a devastating electoral defeat that left Republicans in control of the White House and Congress.

Democrats in Congress, including Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, who while technically an Independent is considered to be a champion of the party’s left wing, are signaling that they hope to find common ground with the next president. Here’s a partial transcript from a speech Sanders delivered on Wednesday evening in Washington, D.C., outlining an agenda that Democrats and Trump might agree upon:

Mr. Trump said, unlike many Republicans, the vast majority of Republicans, he said that he will not cut Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. Now, I believe we should expand Social Security … but that is what he said, and pay attention to see what he now does. The question that will be resolved pretty quickly is whether or not everything that he was saying to the working families of this country was hypocrisy, was dishonest, or whether he was sincere. And we will find that out soon enough. But No. 1, no cuts, says Mr. Trump, to Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. Mr. Trump says he wants to invest a trillion dollars in rebuilding our crumbling infrastructure. That is a good sum of money, that is exactly what we should be doing, and we can create millions of good-paying jobs if we do that. Mr. Trump, that’s what you said on the campaign trail, that’s what we look forward to seeing from you. I happen to believe that the federal minimum wage … is a starvation wage, and that it should be raised to $15 dollars an hour, a living wage. Mr. Trump did not say that, but what he did say is we should raise the minimum wage to 10 bucks an hour. Not enough, but a start, and we will hold him to those words. Mr. Trump said that Wall Street is dangerous, doing bad things, he wants to re-establish Glass-Steagall legislation. I look forward to working with him. Mr. Trump has said he wants six weeks of paid maternity leave. Every other major country on Earth, I think, has at least 12 weeks of paid family and medical leave, but this is a start. We look forward to working with him if he is honest about that. Mr. Trump said throughout his campaign—the cornerstone of his campaign was to change our disastrous trade policies. As someone who voted against every one of these trade policies, I look forward to working with him.

Sanders isn’t promising not to oppose Trump. He has vowed to fight any action that promotes bigotry, racism, sexism, and xenophobia. He has indicated he’ll continue to push for action on climate change, despite the fact that Trump has referred to climate change as a “hoax.” Pointing out potential areas of agreement between Democrats and Trump now also lays the groundwork for the senator to criticize Trump later if he fails to follow through.

His overarching message to voters is that Democrats will work to hold Trump accountable and check his worst impulses. “Many Democrats will be prepared to work with Mr. Trump if he turns out to be sincere about the promises he made during the campaign,” Sanders said during his speech, but he added: “If those promises turn out to be hollow, if they were nothing more than campaign rhetoric, we will not only oppose his economic policies, we will expose that hypocrisy.”