Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent Breaks Down Trump's Tariff Plan and Its Impact on the Middle Class

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🗓️ 4 April 2025

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent explains the administration’s new tariffs, and why we had to do something to stop the slide. (00:00) Trump’s Tariff Plan (05:42) The Current State of the Stock Market (08:22) Will Americans See Substantial Tax Cuts Because of Tariffs? (13:16) How Much Money Will America Make Through Tariffs? (14:33) Bringing Manufacturing Back to the US (24:14) Tariff Pushback From Foreign Countries (29:42) How Will Europe Be Impacted? Paid partnerships with: Tecovas: Get 10% off at tecovas.com/tucker ExpressVPN: Go to https://ExpressVPN.com/Tucker and find out how you can get 3 months of ExpressVPN free! iTrust Capital: Get $100 funding bonus at https://www.iTrustCapital.com/Tucker Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:27.7	Full terms apply.
0:30.1	Mr. Secretary, thank you very much for joining us.
0:32.5	So we're at the Treasury Department.
0:33.9	President had a press conference yesterday next door,
0:41.3	in which he announced a whole new tariff regime global. He'd been promising to do this, well, for 40 years, really.
0:45.3	It came not out of nowhere, but it was clearly his intent all along, as stated, but it did rattle people, including some of his supporters.
0:53.3	So I just wanted to ask you, big picture, where do you think this leads?
0:57.8	Well, Tucker, and thank you for having me.
1:00.8	And as you said, the president's been talking about this for four decades.
1:04.1	Yes.
1:04.3	And this is transformational for the American economy, for the American worker,
1:09.7	and for the new Republican alignment. And, you know,
1:14.2	it's a combination of the old and new ideas. Some of the old ideas were put away. You know,
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