Former President Barack Obama is handing out an endorsement of sorts.

Even though she ended her presidential campaign a month ago, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) has continued to crank out plans for how she’d like the government to be run. They’ve continued throughout the COVID-19 pandemic and, on Monday, got a stamp of approval from Obama.

Linking to Warren’s appearance on the Vox podcast The Ezra Klein Show, Obama described Warren as providing a “cogent summary of how federal policymakers should be thinking about the pandemic in the coming months.” In the discussion, Warren outlined plans for protecting health care workers and stemming disease spread, federal deficit spending to save the economy, and collecting data to improve future response measures.

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