Scott Bessent: “Inflation hasn't gone up.”

“Inflation has gone up. It's at 3% now, up from 2% in April when the tariffs were imposed. No, no, no, they weren't. So Inflation hasn't gone up. And Kristen, the one thing that we're not going to do is do what the Biden administration did and tell the American people they don't know how they feel.” (01:49–01:52)

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