At a Senate hearing last week, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Massachusetts) ripped into Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent over Trump’s failure to deliver on his campaign promise to make America affordable. The heated exchange highlighted the ongoing contention that the Trump Administration has failed to adequately reduce grocery, health care, and utility prices, which has since gone viral on social media.

Warren quoted the Bureau of Labor Statistics, reporting that grocery prices were “2.4% higher at the end of 2025 than they were at the end of 2024.” She went on to explain that other departments, including the Department of Agriculture, suspect that these statistics will climb as the year progresses.

Bessent, who has often been marked as a “Trump-enabler,” has faced scrutiny from Democrat lawmakers. Often defending the president’s foreign policy—including his plans to annex Greenland and dismantle NATO—Bessent accused journalists of being “hysterical,” and his dismissiveness about some of Trump’s statements was evident in his conversation with Warren.

Warren pressed Bessent about Trump’s promise to sue his Federal Reserve board chair pick, Kevin Warsh, if he failed to lower interest rates. She questioned whether he would commit to letting the president sue Warsh, to which Bessent replied, “That is up to the president.”

Warren further pressed Bessent, claiming that she had “thrown him a soft-ball” and questioning why, if Trump’s comment had been a joke, he would not admit it. “It was a joke, and he made a joke about you, too, senator,” Bessent said in response.

Warsh has been criticized by Warren, who said the Fed Chair nominee cared more about “helping Wall Street after the 2008 crash than millions of unemployed Americans,” and by economists for his views on an AI boom enabling rate cuts. During his time in Washington before his nomination as Fed Chair, Warsh had strong relationships with bank leaders, thanks to his support during the 2008 financial crisis.

At a Senate hearing last week, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Massachusetts) ripped into Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent over Trump’s failure to deliver on his campaign promise to make America affordable. The heated exchange highlighted the ongoing contention that the Trump Administration has failed to adequately reduce grocery, health care, and utility prices, which has since gone viral on social media.

Warren quoted the Bureau of Labor Statistics, reporting that grocery prices were “2.4% higher at the end of 2025 than they were at the end of 2024.” She went on to explain that other departments, including the Department of Agriculture, suspect that these statistics will climb as the year progresses.

Bessent, who has often been marked as a “Trump-enabler,” has faced scrutiny from Democrat lawmakers. Often defending the president’s foreign policy—including his plans to annex Greenland and dismantle NATO—Bessent accused journalists of being “hysterical,” and his dismissiveness about some of Trump’s statements was evident in his conversation with Warren.

Warren pressed Bessent about Trump’s promise to sue his Federal Reserve board chair pick, Kevin Warsh, if he failed to lower interest rates. She questioned whether he would commit to letting the president sue Warsh, to which Bessent replied, “That is up to the president.”

Warren further pressed Bessent, claiming that she had “thrown him a soft-ball” and questioning why, if Trump’s comment had been a joke, he would not admit it. “It was a joke, and he made a joke about you, too, senator,” Bessent said in response.

Warsh has been criticized by Warren, who said the Fed Chair nominee cared more about “helping Wall Street after the 2008 crash than millions of unemployed Americans,” and by economists for his views on an AI boom enabling rate cuts. During his time in Washington before his nomination as Fed Chair, Warsh had strong relationships with bank leaders, thanks to his support during the 2008 financial crisis.