Access to affordable credit helps me pay my employees, but I don't really need it.

Infliction is killing me!

But who cares? Big retailers are making record profits!

That's why we support the Durban Marshall Credit Card Bill!

See? Banks and credit unions help small businesses make payroll.

This bill would cut the vital resources they need.

While increasing megastore profits, they deserve it. Don't they?

Tell Congress, stop the Durban Marshall money grab for corporate megastores.

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From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.

Welcome to a special edition of Potomac Watch. This week, we're in Washington, D.C. at a W.S.J. Opinion Live conference. And so today we're bringing you a taste of that in-person journalism.

To see more from WSJ Opinion Live, please visit WSJ.com, where the events are being streamed.

And here's my conversation with Treasury Secretary, Scott Bessent.

Welcome, Mr. Secretary.

Thanks for doing this.

And first, I just want to clear the air on one point.

There was an editorial we wrote a while back. You took some umbrage at.

Not the first time, that's happened in my career.

But uh, uh,

won't be the last.

Yeah.

You called us, I think, you said the editorial board

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