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Friday, Feb. 9, 2024

Is Democratic Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s net worth $73 million?


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Credible estimates have put the net worth of U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Massachusetts, at between $7.5 million and $12 million.

Net worth is a person’s assets — such as cash, home, stocks and property — minus debts owed.

U.S. Rep. Derrick Van Orden, a Republican from western Wisconsin, shared in a Jan. 31, 2024, social media post a Dec. 21 article that listed, without source information, Warren’s net worth at $73 million.

The article was by CAknowledge. Fact-checkers have found the site has drastically overstated the net worth of other political figures.

TheStreet.com on Dec. 18 estimated Warren’s net worth at $7.5 million. The figure was based on estimates from the homes she shares with her husband, proceeds from her book sales, savings and other assets.

In 2019, during Warren’s run for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, Forbes estimated her net worth at $12 million.

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