Scott Bessent: “America first does not mean America alone.”

“But again, I do think that we are determined, as I said last year with the multilateral institutions, the banks, the US wants to be in it, to win it. We want to be good partners. America first does not mean America alone. And we want to go back to basics. And these banks were invented around Bretton woods, which was Post World War II, Europe was, or the, and Asia was a unique time in America.” (33:54–33:58)

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