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Back<\/span><\/p>\n transcript<\/p>\n \u201cAffordability is worse in a blue state.\u201d \u201cWe can debate that.\u201d \u201cNo, no, there\u2019s no debate. New York, Illinois, California, Massachusetts are depopulating.\u201d \u201cAnd they\u2019re going to places in Florida, like Florida, where interest rates are \u2014 I\u2019m saying inflation\u2019s up 22 percent over the last four years.\u201d \u201cWell inflation \u2014 then inflation is up 25 percent nationally. So it\u2019s lower.\u201d \u201cI believe in New York it was 19 percent.\u201d \u201cSorry.\u201d \u201cI believe in New York it was 19 percent.\u201d \u201cI don\u2019t think that\u2019s right. I have evolved on this and that the president\u2019s been right, and the president has said it publicly. The president has a much higher risk appetite than I do. And the president went in with a maximalist position. And that is actually what gave us the leverage in the negotiations.\u201d<\/p>\n Speaking at The New York Times DealBook Summit, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said American trading partners are opening their markets to the United States because of President Trump\u2019s tariffs.<\/span><\/p>\n By McKinnon de Kuyper<\/p>\n December 3, 2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" new video loaded: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent Says He\u2019s \u2018Evolved\u2019 on Tariffs transcript Back transcript Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent Says He\u2019s \u2018Evolved\u2019 on Tariffs Speaking at The New York Times DealBook Summit, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said American trading partners are opening their markets to the United States because of President Trump\u2019s tariffs. \u201cAffordability is<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35877,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[7885,6959,1025,7884,2412,72,3111],"class_list":{"0":"post-35876","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politics","8":"tag-bessent","9":"tag-evolved","10":"tag-hes","11":"tag-scott","12":"tag-secretary","13":"tag-tariffs","14":"tag-treasury"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/35877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent Says He\u2019s \u2018Evolved\u2019 on Tariffs<\/h2>\n
Speaking at The New York Times DealBook Summit, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said American trading partners are opening their markets to the United States because of President Trump\u2019s tariffs.<\/h4>\n