Democrats Parrot Biden’s ‘O-Word’ in Effort To Paint Treasury Nominee Scott Bessent as a Faux Populist

Mr. Bessent called the extension of the 2017 Trump tax cuts ‘the single most important economic issue of the day.’

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Scott Bessent, President-elect Trump's choice to be Secretary of the Treasury. AP/Ben Curtis

Following an election in which voters resoundingly registered their disapproval with President Biden’s economic record, Democrats tried on Thursday to put wealth disparity itself on trial at Treasury Secretary nominee Scott Bessent’s confirmation hearing. The nominee, who has spent decades as a hedge fund manager, in turn laid out his visions for extending the 2017 Trump tax cuts, expanding energy production, and a tariff regime that would not generate inflation. 

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