WATCH: Democrats shrug at Wall Road rally, blame tariffs for increased costs

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Democratic lawmakers deflected questions on why the inventory market has had success beneath President Donald Trump regardless of their darkish predictions on the administration’s tariffs whereas talking with Fox Information Digital on Capitol Hill.

Some downplayed the market’s success, indicating that it has no bearing on the nation’s true economic pulse .

Requested by Fox Information Digital why the inventory market remains to be doing properly if Trump’s tariffs are hurting the financial system, Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto , D-Nev., shot again, "The inventory market is just not the financial system."

She insisted that due to the tariffs, People "are feeling worth crunch once they go to the grocery retailer, costs are excessive."

"The tariffs are a reason behind that. The tariffs or taxes on People," she stated. "And that is why these costs are increased. And that's the reason I fought towards it."

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Progressive Rep. Pramila Jayapal , D-Wash., advised Fox Information Digital that she believes the inventory market is just doing properly "as a result of the billionaires are persevering with to do properly."

"Companies bought massive tax breaks , $7 billion in tax breaks within the huge, dangerous betrayal invoice," stated Jayapal. "That is why the inventory market's doing properly, as a result of the inventory is basically, you realize, numerous these giant corporations really feel like they're doing simply advantageous, they're persevering with to get large tax breaks."

Sen. Angela Alsobrooks, D-Md., stated that "it doesn't matter what the inventory market is saying, [Americans] are seeing the price of groceries haven't gone down. They're seeing that well being care prices have develop into actually exorbitant. They cannot afford it. They will’t afford the price of items."

"That's what they anticipate us to reply to, is how it's affecting them and their on a regular basis lives. And that is what I'm right here and centered on doing," she went on.

Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., advised Fox Information Digital that "all people in America is aware of that the value of products topic to the tariffs are increased."

"The inventory market issues to numerous of us, however costs matter probably the most to individuals. And proper now, individuals are hurting due to Trump's financial insurance policies, together with the tariffs," he stated. "This isn't what Democrats are saying. It is only a proven fact that tariffs are costing shoppers 1000's of {dollars}."

The Trump administration, in the meantime, has blamed the Biden administration for the persistent excessive costs at grocery shops relatively than the tariffs.

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White Home press secretary Karoline Leavitt ripped the media over its reporting on affordability beneath the Trump administration throughout a bilateral assembly between President Trump and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban. (Saul Loeb//AFP by way of Getty Photos)

On Friday, White Home Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt posted on X, urging People to "TRUST IN TRUMP," saying that the president’s "pro-growth insurance policies are a confirmed components to Make America Reasonably priced Once more. They labored in his first time period, and they're slowly however certainly working now."

"President Trump and his complete Administration, from the NEC to Treasury to USDA, are working onerous daily to handle the affordability points created by Joe Biden , who unleashed the worst inflation disaster in fashionable American historical past — one thing the liberal media barely blamed the Democrats for over the previous 4 years."

Leavitt wrote that "the value of eggs, butter, ice cream, recent fruit, cereal, fish, seafood, rice, pasta, and ham are all falling," including that "the very best is but to come back."

Again on Capitol Hill, Sen. John Hoeven, R-N.D., echoed this sentiment, saying, "The purpose that [Democrats] are lacking is that [Trump] is attempting to get us higher phrases from all of the international locations that we export to, attempting to get a degree enjoying area, attempting to develop our exports."

"You need to separate the brief time period from what is going on to occur over time," he defined. "They're attempting to make the argument within the brief time period due to a number of the challenges of getting different international locations to play honest."

"You need to work by means of this course of," Hoeven went on. "The president did it in his first time period, and we ended up with large gross sales to China and different locations, and that helped our ag markets and our different exports. And so, it is the identical factor once more; he's working to verify we get higher commerce phrases for all of our producers, processors, farmers, and everybody else. However it does not occur in at some point, it does not occur in a single day."

SENATE REPUBLICANS DEFECT, REJECT TRUMP'S TARIFFS ON CANADIAN GOODS

U.S. Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) walks to vote on the U.S. Capitol on October 08, 2025 in Washington, DC (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Photos)

Trump’s tariffs will not be all universally reviled by Democrats. Sen. John Fetterman , D-Pa., advised Fox Information Digital, "I agree with a number of the tariffs, particularly with like China."

"However I did not agree with going after Canada and our allies," he went on. "In some circumstances, prefer it's metal, it's acceptable. I do not essentially agree on a number of the different ones."

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Fetterman added that "now it looks as if the Supreme Courtroom could be voting towards that now. So in the end, their opinion counts much more than mine."

Confronted with the query of why the market continues to carry out properly regardless of the tariffs, Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., answered, "One factor I’ve realized is to not attempt to predict or analyze the inventory market."