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Scott Bessent: “President Trump has said that we can expect interest rates…”

Featuring: Scott Bessent, Republican | Secretary of the Treasury | National

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LIVE: White House press briefing with Scott Bessent

Published | Video Starts at 12:28

The Department of Justice represented treasury and the IRS in this matter and I'm going to have to refer to any questions to Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche. So thanks. So President Trump has said that we can expect interest rates to come down very quickly a number of times last week. but the market at the moment does probably does not expect any rate cuts this year. JP Morgan said this, Morgan Stanley and so on. (12:28–12:35)

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