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Speaking with Fox News Digital on Capitol Hill, Democratic lawmakers deflected questions on why the stock market has had success under President Donald Trump in spite of their dark predictions on the administration’s tariffs.

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

Asked by Fox News Digital why the stock market is still doing well if Trump’s tariffs are hurting the economy, Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nev., shot back, “The stock market is not the economy.”

She insisted that because of the tariffs, Americans “are feeling price crunch when they go to the grocery store, prices are high.”

“The tariffs are a cause of that. The tariffs or taxes on Americans,” she said. “And t

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