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Scott Bessent: “The economy is growing at 3.8%.”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 04:09

That would be almost as big as the ill fated IRA which caused the worst inflation in half a century. So they want to put this inflationary impulse into President Trump's already strong economy. You know, The economy is growing at 3.8%. We don't need 1.5 trillion pumped in. The Democrats seem to love inflation. But getting back to Joe's kind of premise on this, are these furloughs or job layoffs in the federal government, are those going to come anyway? (04:09–04:12)

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Asserts that the economy is currently growing at a rate of 3.8%.

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