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Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) had a fiery response to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent Thursday on Capitol Hill.

Bessent was testifying before the Senate Banking Committee on the U.S. economy under President Donald Trump and his economic policy agenda.

"Last week, Trump said 'we have the groceries going down.' Did grocery prices drop in 2025?" Warren asked Bessent. ...

A CNN fact-checker on Tuesday called out President Donald Trump's rambling speech for its 'litany of lies."

Daniel Dale described how several points that Trump made during his nearly two-hour-long press conference on the first anniversary of the inauguration of his second term were hard to keep up with — and that each topic the president attempted to hit was full of confusing comments and misinformation.

"There are just so many. I'm struggling to keep track of it," Dale said. "You know, $18 trillion in investment in the U.S., that's a fictional figure, 600% reduction in prescription drug prices. That's a fictional figure. 'I ended eight unknowable wars.' Eight is a fictional figure. 'We inherited inflation at a historic high.' No. He inherited a 3% inflation just a little bit above where it is now, although it did hit about a 40-year high in June 2022, more than two years before he returned to office."...

President Donald Trump won re-election last year by promising to end inflation "on Day One," but 268 days into his second term grocery customers are swearing off some choices as too expensive.

Mario Bedolla has worked four decades at North Pulaski Fresh Market in Chicago, and he estimates that prices have risen about 20 percent this year, and he told the Wall Street Journal that his customers are furious.

“They’ll come in and say, ‘What the f---,’” Bedolla said. “It happens all the time.”...