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Welker: "Isn't the fact that you're rolling back tariffs an admission that they ultimately do drive up prices?" Bessent: "Kristen, how much does your arm weight?" Welker: "I do not know, exactly?" Bessent: " But you know how much you weigh and you get on the scale every morning."

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Kristen Welker: “Well, and banana prices are up almost 7%, coffee prices up nearly 19%. Isn't the fact that you're rolling back tariffs an admission that ultimately they do drive up prices for consumers?” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent: “Kristen, how much does your arm weigh?” Kristen Welker: “That I do not know.” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent: “Exactly. But you know how much you weigh, and you get on the scale every morning. Inflation is a composite number. And we look at everything. So we are trying – we try to push down the things we can control. And as I said that we are working on – the energy prices are down. And everything flows from that. And I think we're going to see these other prices come down. And again, many of these goods were part of trade deals with countries that have been in the works for months.”

Kristen Welker: “Well, and banana prices are up almost 7%, coffee prices up nearly 19%. Isn't the fact that you're rolling back tariffs an admission that ultimately they do drive up prices for consumers?” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent: “Kristen, how much does your arm weigh?” Kristen Welker: “That I do not know.” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent: “Exactly. But you know how much you weigh, and you get on the scale every morning. Inflation is a composite number. And we look at everything. So we are trying – we try to push down the things we can control. And as I said that we are working on – the energy prices are down. And everything flows from that. And I think we're going to see these other prices come down. And again, many of these goods were part of trade deals with countries that have been in the works for months.”

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Kristen Welker: “Well, and banana prices are up almost 7%, coffee prices up nearly 19%. Isn't the fact that you're rolling back tariffs an admission that ultimately they do drive up prices for consumers?” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent: “Kristen, how much does your arm weigh?” Kristen Welker: “That I do not know.” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent: “Exactly. But you know how much you weigh, and you get on the scale every morning. Inflation is a composite number. And we look at everything. So we are trying – we try to push down the things we can control. And as I said that we are working on – the energy prices are down. And everything flows from that. And I think we're going to see these other prices come down. And again, many of these goods were part of trade deals with countries that have been in the works for months.”

Kristen Welker: “Well, and banana prices are up almost 7%, coffee prices up nearly 19%. Isn't the fact that you're rolling back tariffs an admission that ultimately they do drive up prices for consumers?” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent: “Kristen, how much does your arm weigh?” Kristen Welker: “That I do not know.” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent: “Exactly. But you know how much you weigh, and you get on the scale every morning. Inflation is a composite number. And we look at everything. So we are trying – we try to push down the things we can control. And as I said that we are working on – the energy prices are down. And everything flows from that. And I think we're going to see these other prices come down. And again, many of these goods were part of trade deals with countries that have been in the works for months.”

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🚨 HOLY SMACKDOWN! Scott Bessent just obliterated NBC's Kristen Welker - this is one for the ages. "Kristen, if things are so bad, why was the GDP 3.3%? Why is the stock market at a new high? [...] You're quoting big companies, but the big company index, the S&P, is at a new HIGH." WELKER: "Hasbro says they're going to have to increase their prices. Goldman Sachs says 86% of the tariff revenue collected so far has been paid by American businesses and consumers. So just bottom line, Mr. Secretary, do you acknowledge that these tariffs are a tax on American consumers?" BESSENT: "No, I DON'T." WELKER: "Even though you have companies saying they are going to have to increase prices and given the fact that 86% of these tariffs so far have been paid by Americans?" BESSENT: "No, you're quoting Goldman Sachs. I made a good career trading against Goldman Sachs." 🧨💥💥

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