WATCH: Dem lawmakers attempt to explain why stock market is booming despite Trump tariffs

Democratic lawmakers deflected questions on why the stock arena has had success under President Donald Trump in spite of their dark predictions on the administration s tariffs while speaking with Fox News Digital on Capitol Hill Chosen downplayed the area s success indicating that it has no bearing on the country s true economic pulse Appealed by Fox News Digital why the stock arena is still doing well if Trump s tariffs are hurting the market Sen Catherine Cortez Masto D-Nev shot back The stock arena is not the financial market 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 announced And that's why those prices are higher And that is why I fought against it WHITE HOUSE RIPS 'IMBECILIC BUFFOON' TIM WALZ AFTER TRUMP TARIFF CRITICISMProgressive Rep Pramila Jayapal D-Wash communicated Fox News Digital that she believes the stock field is only doing well because the billionaires are continuing to do well Corporations got massive tax breaks billion in tax breaks in the big bad betrayal bill stated Jayapal That's why the stock market's doing well because the stock is really you know a lot of those large companies feel like they're doing just fine they're continuing to get huge tax breaks Sen Angela Alsobrooks D-Md explained that no matter what the stock territory is saying Americans are seeing the cost of groceries have not gone down They are seeing that soundness care costs have become really exorbitant They can't afford it They can t afford the cost of goods That is what they expect us to respond to is how it is affecting them and their everyday lives And that's what I am here and focused on doing she went on Sen Chris Murphy D-Conn informed Fox News Digital that everybody in America knows that the price of goods subject to the tariffs are higher The stock area matters to a lot of folks but prices matter the majority to people And right now people are hurting because of Trump's economic policies including the tariffs he declared This is not what Democrats are saying It's just a fact that tariffs are costing consumers thousands of dollars The Trump administration meanwhile has blamed the Biden administration for the persistent high prices at grocery stores rather than the tariffs ' MINUTES' SEGMENT COMPARES TRUMP BUSINESS ACTIVITY TO STOCK CRASH DECLARES CEOS TOO 'NERVOUS' TO SPEAK OUTOn Friday White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt posted on X urging Americans to TRUST IN TRUMP saying that the president s pro-growth policies are a proven formula to Make America Affordable Again They worked in his first term and they are slowly but surely working now President Trump and his entire Administration from the NEC to Treasury to USDA are working hard every day to address the affordability issues created by Joe Biden who unleashed the worst inflation dilemma in modern American history something the liberal media barely blamed the Democrats for over the past years Leavitt wrote that the price of eggs butter ice cream fresh fruit cereal fish seafood rice pasta and ham are all falling adding that the best is yet to come Back on Capitol Hill Sen John Hoeven R-N D echoed this sentiment saying The point that Democrats are missing is that Trump is trying to get us better terms from all the countries that we export to trying to get a level playing field trying to grow our exports You have to separate the short term from what's going to happen over time he explained They're trying to make the argument in the short term because of specific of the challenges of getting other countries to play fair You have to work through this process Hoeven went on The president did it in his first term and we ended up with huge sales to China and other places and that helped our ag markets and our other exports And so it's the same thing again he is working to make sure we get better agreement terms for all of our manufacturers processors farmers and everyone else But it doesn't happen in one day it doesn't happen overnight SENATE REPUBLICANS DEFECT REJECT TRUMP'S TARIFFS ON CANADIAN GOODSTrump s tariffs are not all universally reviled by Democrats Sen John Fetterman D-Pa advised Fox News Digital I agree with several of the tariffs especially with like China But I didn't agree with going after Canada and our allies he went on In selected circumstances like it's steel it is appropriate I don't necessarily agree on particular of the other ones Fetterman added that now it seems like the Supreme Court might be voting against that now So ultimately their opinion counts a lot more than mine Faced with the question of why the area continues to perform well despite the tariffs Sen Richard Blumenthal D-Conn answered One thing I ve learned is not to try to predict or analyze the stock arena