Elizabeth Warren

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., pushed back Wednesday against the assertion from her Republican colleague that the Senate is powerless to “rein in” President Donald Trump.

Asked whether she agreed with Sen. John Cornyn’s, R-Texas, claim that the GOP-led Senate can’t check Trump, the Democratic senator suggested Republican senators need to “grow a spine.”

“Look, the Republicans have a majority. They could constrain Donald Trump on war, they can constrain him on these slimy tax deals, they could constrain him on his corruption. The list is long,” Warren told journalist Pablo Manriquez of the anti-Trump MeidasTouch Network.

“But to do that, they would actually have to grow a spine. And so far, what we have around here is a bunch of gelatinous blobs, who whatever Donald Trump wants to do, they just bow down and say, ‘OK.’ It’s disgusting,” she continued.

Cornyn, a Republican snubbed by Trump in favor of endorsing GOP primary rival Ken Paxton, briefly held out on supporting Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche’s nomination to lead the Justice Department in a permanent capacity.

Cornyn, who lost his primary, and fellow GOP holdout Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina voted Tuesday to advance Blanche’s nomination out of the Senate Judiciary Committee after the Justice Department confirmed in writing that it wasn’t moving forward with a $1.8 billion fund to compensate Trump allies who believe they were prosecuted for political purposes, which the administration announced as part of the settlement, the Associated Press reported.

Despite the agreement, Trump has said that he would like to compensate his allies.

Asked by a reporter if that concerned him, Cornyn responded: “Well, there’s nothing we could do to rein in the president when he said he likes the fund and he wishes it still exists, but the fact of the matter [is] it’s dead, and that’s all we could do under the circumstances.”