Rapid Response 47 @RapidResponse47 - Video: .@SecScottBessent: "With the Section 301 tariffs, I am confident that we will be back to the same level — if not higher — of tariff income [as] last year, and that is most of the increase in the deficit... Remember, we did not get here in a day. We were left with a mess. The Biden Administration had the highest deficit-to-GDP in history when we weren't at war or weren't in a recession. For 2025, we brought it down by more than a percent." Quoted Post: Rapid Response 47 @RapidResponse47 - Video: "Do you think that we've seen peak deficit?" @SecScottBessent: "I think there's a very, very good chance we have. We are going to be laser-focused." https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/2090470959157326147
Rapid Response 47 @RapidResponse47 - Video: .@SecScottBessent on tariffs refunds: "The Democrat AGs who filed the ridiculous lawsuit against this Administration wanted the money to go back to the payer of record — so that is corporate welfare. The American people had that money, and if I hear another Democrat legislator make the inane remark 'the American people should get the money' — the American people HAD THE MONEY in the U.S. Treasury and we were forced to give it back." https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/2090471553527886102
Rapid Response 47 @RapidResponse47 - Video: .@VP: I'm excited about this event because it's actually the steel mill where my grandfather worked for nearly 40 years. Plants like this wouldn't exist were it not for some of the Trump Administration's economic policies and focus on re-industrializing the American heartland. Quoted Post: Henry J. Gomez @HenryJGomez - NEW: Vance will deliver a speech Friday in his hometown of Middletown, Ohio, where he’ll talk up Trump’s agenda and seem to draw contrasts with the progressive left.