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In the old days, you know, if you had good job numbers, like great job numbers like they announced today, the stock market goes up. Today, everything is crazy. The whole world is crazy. So when you…

Donald Trump ·45th and 47th U.S. President ·Jun 2026

Uh again Senator uh we we will work on anything but we are going to guarantee that the the benefits uh remain as they are.

Scott Bessent ·Treasury Secretary ·Jun 2026

Senator, part part of it is it's the revenues aren't the the source of the revenue is not segregated because the more Americans who work, the more the higher paying jobs they have, the more goes into…

Scott Bessent ·Treasury Secretary ·Jun 2026

the social security trust fund is funded by the social security tax which is segregated from general revenue... that is segregated. That is a social security revenue problem and expenditure issue.

Scott Bessent ·Treasury Secretary ·Jun 2026

Sir, we have to get our short-term house in order first. We inherited a mess 6.9... with these deficits, with this debt that was run up in the previous administration with 6.9% deficit to GDP. But…

Scott Bessent ·Treasury Secretary ·Jun 2026

The the US the first instituted the global minimum tax, and the Biden administration wanted to supplicate us to other countries and a you know, internationalist tax regime that we were having none of.

Scott Bessent ·Treasury Secretary ·Jun 2026

We we are seeing a uh pick up in corporate revenue, but importantly, where we are seeing the deductions is for the full expensing both for equipment uh and structures, both factory structures and…

Scott Bessent ·Treasury Secretary ·Jun 2026

USAID, I do not oversee. I wear many hats in this administration. Not one... The That has USAID. That has nothing to do with us.

Scott Bessent ·Treasury Secretary ·Jun 2026

Our action will allow these facilities to invest in upgrades that will extend their operational lives for decades into the future, reinforce the reliability of our electric grid, which is really the…

Donald Trump ·45th and 47th U.S. President ·Jun 2026

Today we're officially invoking the Defense Production Act to save 13 coal plants in West Virginia, Kentucky, North Carolina, Indiana, Tennessee, Arizona, Arkansas, Oklahoma, North Dakota, and…

Donald Trump ·45th and 47th U.S. President ·Jun 2026

China, by the way, last year built 52 coal plants. They build about two two windmills. You know, the only time they build a windmill is when they're trying to sell them to stupid people from the…

Donald Trump ·45th and 47th U.S. President ·Jun 2026

As a result of the $700 million investment that I'm announcing today, we will protect 14 coal plants and 42 coal mines. It's a tremendous number. And build two new coal plants and one massive new…

Donald Trump ·45th and 47th U.S. President ·Jun 2026

Your fertilizer prices are going to go way down just like they were four months ago. Your fertilizer is down, your energy's down, your oil, your gas is all coming way down. And frankly, I thought it…

Donald Trump ·45th and 47th U.S. President ·Jun 2026

We have a great gentleman coming in, Kevin Walsh. He's going to do a fantastic job at the Fed. We're getting rid of too late.

Donald Trump ·45th and 47th U.S. President ·Jun 2026

In the old days, you know, if you had good job numbers, like great job numbers like they announced today, the stock market goes up. Today, everything is crazy. The whole world is crazy. So when you…

Donald Trump ·45th and 47th U.S. President ·Jun 2026

We're thinking about an IPO for that. We're not. It's not a rush, but we've created a tremendous value in the country to buy Fannie Mae Freddie Mac as you know and it suffered tremendous hardship and…

Donald Trump ·45th and 47th U.S. President ·Jun 2026

I would like to see that but I leave that up to Kevin but uh I've always said I've said it for years when you have a country that's doing well the market should go up. The market should and the…

Donald Trump ·45th and 47th U.S. President ·Jun 2026

I'd like to see lower interest rates because each point, think of this, is $600 billion. So, cutting rates are just getting back to it. You save hundreds of millions of dollars when you take one…

Donald Trump ·45th and 47th U.S. President ·Jun 2026

I think in general a carbon tax is a good idea it's just hard it's got to be tricky in the implementation you can't have a Vermont only carbon tax that's just for show.

Austan Goolsbee ·President ·Jun 2023

I haven't been that big of a fan of universal basic income Ubi is a policy designed for a world where everyone has lost their job and the robots have replaced us all so in a world where no one has a…

Austan Goolsbee ·President ·Jun 2023

I've been of the view that cutting taxes for high income people in an environment where the forces in the economy are already leading to massive increases in income and wealth at the top doesn't make…

Austan Goolsbee ·President ·Jun 2023

No one should be targeted by the administration. Whoever is in the White House, their taxes should be paid and they should be confident that that information will be kept confidential with the IRS…

Scott Bessent ·Treasury Secretary ·Jun 2026

I believe that no one is above the law, but you all have put the president beneath the law and you have weaponized the system against him.

Scott Bessent ·Treasury Secretary ·Jun 2026

I am saying that we are much closer to the Fed's target rate of 2% on core inflation than we were when President Trump came into office. We are at 2.8%.

Scott Bessent ·Treasury Secretary ·Jun 2026

Finally, we're taking nearly $200 million in that to set aside for the Green New Scam. and it was set aside for the Green New Scam, but the Green New Scam is history and repurposing that money so…

Donald Trump ·45th and 47th U.S. President ·Jun 2026

Today, we're officially invoking the Defense Production Act to save 13 coal plants in West Virginia, Kentucky, North Carolina, Indiana, Tennessee, Arizona, Arkansas, Oklahoma, North Dakota, and…

Donald Trump ·45th and 47th U.S. President ·Jun 2026

As a result of the $700 million investment that I'm announcing today, we will protect 14 coal plants and 42 coal mines. It's a tremendous number. And build two new coal plants and one massive new…

Donald Trump ·45th and 47th U.S. President ·Jun 2026

If you look at China, if you look at so many of the successful countries, they're using coal. If you look at some of the real great failures countries, they're using wind. Just keeps blowing,…

Donald Trump ·45th and 47th U.S. President ·Jun 2026

So today, we're taking historic action to bring down the price of energy and the cost of living for all Americans with the power of clean, beautiful coal.

Donald Trump ·45th and 47th U.S. President ·Jun 2026

Finally, we're taking nearly $200 million in that to set aside for the Green New Scam. and it was set aside for the Green New Scam, but the Green New Scam is history and repurposing that money so…

Donald Trump ·45th and 47th U.S. President ·Jun 2026