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Scott Bessent: “We've tried to get humanitarian aid in and the regime…”

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

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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent holds White House press briefing — 5/28/2026

Published | Video Starts at 23:10

That's going to be up to that's going to be up to the Cuban government that they can go up, they can go down, that We've tried to get humanitarian aid in and the regime rejected it. So because they wanted to go through their corrupt system so I they could go up, they could go down carrot and stick Secretary Rubio doing a fantastic job of managing this process and we at treasury are working with him in the red. (23:10–23:17)

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Asserts that attempts to deliver humanitarian aid to Cuba were rejected by the regime.

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