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Scott Bessent: “The unfettered free markets have taken us to these gigantic…”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 15:16

Are all these things one offs that the President thinks are just necessary in the current environment? Because it does go back on years of sort of classic conservatism. Some of these moves. Well, The unfettered free markets have taken us to these gigantic trade deficits. They have allowed China. Yeah, all these things are not classic. Well, free, free trade was not fair trade. (15:16–15:24)

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Claims that unrestricted free markets have resulted in large trade deficits.

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