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🚨NEW: Treasury Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent breaks down Trump's tariff and economic plan to prioritize "Main Street over Wall Street." "Many of our trading partners, including our allies, have not been good partners. If tariffs are so bad, why do they have them?" "Or if the American consumer is... show more
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@SecScottBessent This was a great interview. Reciprocal tariffs are 100% going to be a good move in the long run.
@SecScottBessent Technically, the highest-ranking gay cabinet official in U.S. history just said this administration is putting the working class ahead of Wall Street. Democrats should be rejoicing.
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@SecScottBessent Wall Street got bailed out, offshored our jobs, and lectured us about “free markets” while backing nations that tax the hell out of us. Now they’re crying because Main Street’s getting a seat at the table? Yeah, run it.
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Tariffs aren’t about punishment—they’re about leverage. The America First Investment Policy nails it: cutting reliance on foreign adversaries while fast-tracking allies. China’s been vacuuming up U.S. tech and farmland for decades, using our own capital against us. CFIUS restrictions now block their access to critical sectors like semiconductors and energy, forcing Beijing to “eat” their own failed strategies. Rebuilding domestic pharma and manufacturing isn’t optional—it’s survival. Wall Street profits when supply chains hemorrhage jobs overseas. Main Street wins when we make things here again. The numbers don’t lie: $3 trillion in private investment since January proves realignment works. Next step? Audit every foreign-owned acre of U.S. farmland and claw back what’s been exploited.
@SecScottBessent But if corporations are forced to bring their manufacturing back home, they won't be able to use slave labor in Asian sweatshops anymore 🥺 Think of the corporations, folks. You're being insensitive to their desire for slavery.
@SecScottBessent It's been America last for decades, Trump is making it America first.
@SecScottBessent Bessent’s got it right. If tariffs are so bad, why use them?
@SecScottBessent I’m old enough to remember when everyone said Trump worked at the behest of Wall Street? What happened?
@SecScottBessent This is the way. Don’t let uneducated people or the propaganda scare you. This is all part of the plan.
![For the last decade, the media, Democrats, and Never Trump Republicans have denounced Trump as a tool of the rich and of Wall Street. Trump’s populism was fake, they said. He doesn’t really care about the working class. He just cares about himself and his Wall Street buddies. Trump’s tariffs and Wall Street’s reaction to them prove that all of that was a lie, says Batya Ungar-Sargon, the author of two important recent books, one about the media (Bad News) and the other about the working class (Second Class). “Liberation Day should go down in history as the day that finally put to bed the myth that Donald Trump only cares about the rich,” she said in a new podcast with me today. “It's the exact opposite. He is waging class warfare on Wall Street for the sake of the American working class. And to punish him, Wall Street is literally just shorting him. They're shorting his agenda. They are betting against America, they are betting against the president because they cannot stand the idea that there is a person with power in America was not on his knees in front of Wall Street asking them, ‘And what would you like next?’ the way both parties have been doing for 60 years.” The media has been even worse. “Our economic policy for the last 60 years was put in place by people who are too lazy to get out from behind their laptops,” she said. “They imagine that nobody would want to work in a factory because they would rather die than work in a factory. They would rather die than watch their own children work in a factor or clean their own toilets. So they imagine that no one would want to do these things. And so they shipped manufacturing overseas and imported a slave caste.” Over half of Americans have money in the stock market, and so we shouldn’t discount the pain many people are feeling right now or the possibility that Trump’s tariffs could backfire, cause a recession, and lower living standards. But, as Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has noted, “The top 10% of Americans own 88% of the stock market. The next 40% owns 12% of the stock market. The bottom 50% has debt. They have credit card bills. They rent their homes. They have auto loans. And we've got to give them some relief.” The problem isn’t just the inequality. It’s the lack of solidarity. The wealthiest Americans don’t seem to care about the poorest. “Last year,” noted Bessent, “the summer of 2024, Americans took more European vacations than they had in history. [And] Summer of 2024, more Americans were using food banks than ever in history.” Creating more purchasing power for the poorest Americans would be good for growth, not bad, argue tariff supporters, including Bessent, Oren Cass, and Ungar-Sargon. “The top 10% now control over 60% of our GDP. They are not the ideal consumer for the central components of the American dream: housing, healthcare, education, and retirement. They are the only consumers who can afford those things. So the price for those items is tagged to their incomes.” Bessent says something similar. “I don't think the bottom 50% of Americans are losers, I think the system hasn't worked for them. I think that they are winners. It's just a bad system. So we are going to fix the system. They want good jobs. They want their kids to do better than they do. They want to own a home. They want to pay down their debt. This isn't hard. We can do this in the next four years.” And bringing a significant amount of manufacturing back to the United States is a national security imperative recognized by Republicans and Democrats. “We literally rely on our greatest adversary for the tools that we would need to fight it should it come to that,” said Batya-Sargon. “They exported a deadly pandemic, and we relied on them to produce the vaccines, the pharmaceuticals, and the protective gear we needed to combat it. This is like a South Park episode only without the humor. It's so obviously absurd and yet nobody had the guts to do anything about this.” Please subscribe now to support Public's award-winning reporting, read the rest of the article, and watch the full video!](https://image.24vids.com/tw-1909296829914923425/amplify_video_thumb/1909296394764230656/img/AOwubwVDLCF4g0YI.jpg)
