Sen. Elizabeth Warren Discusses Future Of Mass Pike Project, Cape Cod Bridges And President Trump

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August 11, 2025

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President Donald Trump's recent firing of the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics after she revised employment figures for May and June sharply downward sparked a political uproar over the potential damage to the integrity of government data. But the fuss may have partially obscured the grim economic implications of the reported trends, said Massachusetts's senior Senator Elizabeth Warren in a WBZ-TV interview.

"The economy is in a lot shakier condition than the earlier numbers had reported," said Warren, who places blame on three major Trump administration policies. "Trump decided, first of all, I just to cause tariff chaos, right? So tariffs are up, tariffs are down. And what that does is every employer in America who's in manufacturing, anything that might [involve] import or export, says, 'I don't know what it's going to look like.' So they all hold back. They don't build new buildings, they don't hire, they don't buy new tools. And that starts to have an effect on the economy, as well as pushing prices up in areas where tariffs are beginning to bite."

Warren also cited the Elon Musk-led firing of thousands of federal workers and the termination of research grants as damaging to the economy.

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