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Scott Bessent: “The President has cut back on government. We're right sizing…”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 05:09

We have some great government servants, but real wage growth does not come from government jobs. It's the private sector. And Doge took care of some of those excess government jobs. Yeah, The President has cut back on government. We're right sizing it back to the pre-Covid levels. pre Covid levels. There was this incredible blowout in government bloat. And it's like the President says, I could create 1 million, 2 million jobs if I wanted to blow up the government. (05:09–05:19)

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Asserts that the President has reduced government size to pre-Covid levels.

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