Thank you.

Thank you, Senator Graham.

We appreciate you giving this introduction and you are now excused as is our practice.

And Mr. Bessent, before we turn it over to you for your opening statement, I have four questions that we ask all nominees who come before this committee.

The first is, is there anything that you are aware of in your background that might present a conflict of interest with...

As soon as Scott goes, we're going to go back.

That's Lindsay Graham team up as a South Carolinian.

Scott's going to give a opening statement that I think outlines President Trump's

thinking about the economy and about how we finance it. And then he's going to take questions.

And I think this is going to get a little rough today. They are, look, their angle of attack is on

Pam Bondi and on Lee Zeldon and on Scott,

maybe not as personal, right, as they attacked some of the other people, but I think it's

going to be pretty intense.

We want to make sure we get, we get all of her from Scott.

Once again, once again, the economic team of President Trump will be Russ voted OMB, Scott Besson, at Treasury, Howard Lutken, who they have not scheduled yet at Commerce.

Commerce is going to have a lot to say about the tariffs and the whole external revenue service, although I think it's going to be housed at Treasury.

And, of course, Peter Navarro is not. Okay, Scott Besson, let's go back and hear Scott's opening statement.

The Treasury.

I want to thank all of you who took the time to meet with me over the past few weeks.

I want to thank my spouse, John Freeman, who is here today, and my wonderful children,

Cole and Caroline.

Mike, I'm not sure.

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