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The Fox News Rundown

Business Rundown: Trump's "First 100-Hour Agenda"

The Fox News Rundown

FOX News Podcasts

Politics, Daily News, News

3.41.5K Ratings

🗓️ 25 November 2024

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

On Friday, President-elect Trump finally announced his pick to lead the Department of Treasury would be hedge fund founder and CEO Scott Bessent.  Co-anchor of The Big Money Show on FOX Business Taylor Riggs was joined by former Trump senior economic adviser and Heritage Foundation economist Stephen Moore to discuss the Bessent pick. Moore explains why Scott Bessent was a relief to Trump skeptics on Wall Street, Bessent’s “3-3-3” plan to grow the American economy, and what the economic priorities may be in the President-elect’s “first 100-hour agenda.” Photo Credit: AP Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

You know what that is.

0:04.0

An ice cold beer.

0:07.0

What's different?

0:09.0

It's Budweiser, a perfect beer for party season.

0:14.0

Best enjoyed with your best buds.

0:20.0

Cheers to that. Budweiser, like no way. Best enjoyed with your best butts.

0:22.3

Cheers to that.

0:25.3

Budweiser, like no other.

0:26.8

Please drink responsibly.

0:28.8

For the facts, visit drinkaware.com.uker.

0:33.5

I'm Taylor Riggs, and this is the Fox Business Rundown. Monday, November 25th, 2024.

0:40.3

President elect Trump has nominated hedge fund founder and CEO Scott Besant as his next administration's U.S. Treasury Secretary.

0:49.3

He's a free market guy, and I think this signals that we're going to have less onerous regulation on our businesses, more open capital markets, more job opportunities for Americans.

1:01.0

But again, it's not going to be an easy job.

1:03.0

After reports of tight competition to lead the next department of the Treasury, on Friday, President-elect Trump finally announced his pick would be Key Square Capital

1:13.1

Management, founder and CEO, Scott Besson. In his announcement, Trump praised Besson as,

1:19.7

quote, a strong advocate for the America First Agenda, who will help bring about the golden

1:25.4

age for the United States by focusing on revitalizing the economy

1:29.8

and preserving the dollar. Besson became a somewhat recurring guest on the campaign trail

1:35.7

as he lent the campaign some Wall Street support and defended the aggressive tariff plans

1:41.9

laid out by the president-elect.

1:50.1

Reporting also tells us that Besson has recommended Trump pursue a 3-33 policy in which the administration would prioritize, cutting the budget deficit to 3% of GDP by the end of his term,

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