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Scott Bessent: “The U.S. is an energy superpower thanks to President Trump's…”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 15:35

I think what we are seeing with the choke point in the Strait of Hormuth, we now have record energy exports out of the U.S. The U.S. is an energy superpower thanks to President Trump's policies. in the first term, now in the second term. And the only thing that is constraining us are the export facilities which once again were stopped in the Biden administration. (15:35–15:41)

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Asserts that U.S. energy dominance is due to President Trump's policies.

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