During his campaign, one of President-elect Donald Trump's top issues was the economy.

Kamala Harris and Crooked Joe have driven our economy off a cliff.

The Harris price hikes have cost the typical household $28,000.

Congratulations.

Hope everyone's happy.

I'm going to make America affordable again.

In addition to make it great again, we're going to make it affordable again.

Trump promised big changes by levying tariffs, cutting taxes, and deregulating parts of the economy.

Which is why, as Trump has named his cabinet picks over the past few weeks, our colleague

Andrew Rastusha has been watching for one role in particular.

Yeah, we've been sort of chasing our tails over the last few weeks, trying to figure out what the president is going to do before he does it.

But this is a big one for us.

On Friday, the president-elect announced that he was going to pick Scott Bessent to run the Treasury Department.

Scott Bessent.

He's a 62-year-old hedge fund manager from South Carolina.

And unlike some of Trump's other cabinet nominations, this one took some time.

There were plenty of other decisions that happened quickly, the defense secretary, the attorney general.

Big positions that happened in just a matter of days.

The fact that this took more than two weeks

says a lot about the political importance of the economy for Trump. He knows that this is one of the

issues that sunk Biden and then later Harris. And he knows his political fortunes are really tied up in it.

Right. And the Treasury Secretary is key to making his economic promises happen.

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