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Scott Bessent: “President's 2017 tax cuts and Jobs act, and then the one big…”

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

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Exclusive Interview with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent at the 2026 Reagan National Economic Forum

Published | Video Starts at 00:51

So communicating to the American people and the President, Reagan's tax cuts. Art Laffer, who was one of the architects of those, has told me those President's 2017 tax cuts and Jobs act, and then the one big beautiful bill that we passed last July 4th, driving the US economy. and I can say it's private sector growth, full, full expensing there for businesses, for. For plants, for their facilities. You know, we give the businesses the incentives to invest, and then they decide what they invest. (00:51–01:02)

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Asserts that the 2017 tax cuts and a bill passed on July 4th are driving the US economy.

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