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Scott Bessent: “The Gates foundation has something like 13 billion of…”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 27:58

And you know, if you read his recent speeches, he believes we're going to innovate our way out of this. And if you look, I think The Gates foundation has something like 13 billion of investments in energy innovation. And look, no one's expecting deos machina one day and everything will be fixed. But in the US we were going to run out of everything. (27:58–28:07)

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Asserts that the Gates Foundation has invested approximately $13 billion in energy innovation.

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