BREAKING NEWS: Elizabeth Warren Has Heated Clash With Scott Bessent: ‘You Don’t Have A Plan’
TIN NÓNG: Elizabeth Warren có cuộc tranh cãi nảy lửa với Scott Bessent: ‘Ông không có kế hoạch’ – YouTube
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(00:00) Rank member. >> Thank you, Mr. Chairman. So, for a solid year while he ran for president, Donald Trump promised pretty much every day that he was going to lower costs on day one. On day one, if he was elected, those were his words, not mine. So, Secretary Bessant, you are one of the president’s top economic adviserss.
(00:20) Let’s just start with a little truthtelling about the Trump economy. One year in, affordability is the top concern for Americans across the country. Donald Trump has called affordability, I want to get this right, a hoax. He’s called it a scam. He’s called it a conj job. You’re the secretary of treasury.
(00:43) You know the numbers. Is affordability a hoax, a scam, or a conj job? Uh, Senator, it may be a bit nuanced for you, but what President Trump is referring to is the media saying that the affordability crisis was generated by this administration when it was you and President Biden who destroy who destroyed the the buying power of the American people.
(01:08) So, there is an affordability crisis and you were front and center in it. >> So, let me make sure that I understand Donald Trump is not saying that affordability, what’s happening to families right now is a hoax. uh he he is saying that trying to lay the blame at this administration rather than the Biden war economy is a hoax.
(01:27) >> Okay. So it all happened before he got it >> and everything that’s happened since then. Nothing is a hoax here. >> 21.5% cumulative inflation. >> Let me just ask about what’s happened in the one year that Donald Trump has been president. Last week, President Trump said, quote, “We have the groceries going down.
(01:53) ” Did grocery prices drop in 2025? >> Uh, numer numerous prices have >> Did grocery prices drop in 2025? >> Numerous grocery prices have gone down. >> I’m sorry. I I don’t know if you can’t hear me. Did grocery prices drop in 2025? >> Numerous grocery prices have gone down and And in fact, and in fact, we have seen inflation at 2.1% for the past.
(02:18) >> Have you seen the Bureau of Labor Statistics, that is Donald Trump’s own Bureau of Labor Statistics numbers, that report that grocery prices were 2.4% higher at the end of 2025 than they were at the end of 2024. Trump’s own Department of Agriculture has projected that those prices would climb higher in 2026 and under Donald Trump, families are paying more and more for groceries.
(02:52) So, if you’re just going to insult people by denying the facts that are out there and tell people they’re doing great when they’re struggling, I think that’s just another way to say you don’t have a plan to bring down these prices. You’re not willing to admit the failures of the Trump administration. Senator, >> I will ask you a question in just a sec here. It’s not just groceries.
(03:17) The numbers from Trump’s own economic agency show that Americans are paying more for utility bills, more for health care, more for housing construction. Families aren’t fooled by these lies. Mr. Secretary, you owe it to American families to own up what’s going on. And Secretary Besson, I have one more question for you while I have you here.
(03:41) You ran the search for Donald Trump’s Fed chair nominee and Trump promised, quote, “Anyone that disagrees with me will never be Fed chairman.” Kevin Walsh got the nod last Friday. And then over the weekend, Donald Trump joked that he would sue Mr. Worsh if he failed to lower interest rates.
(04:03) At least I think it was a joke. But just in case, this should be an easy one. Mr. Secretary, can you commit right here and now that Trump’s Fed nominee, Kevin Walsh, will not be sued, will not be investigated by the Department of Justice if he doesn’t cut interest rates exactly the way that Donald Trump wants? >> Uh, I I that that is up to the president.
(04:30) Uh, can you commit that you will I’m sorry. Can you commit that you will not hold up be sued if it doesn’t drop interest rates? Can you >> and you won’t be criminally investigated? >> The president also made a big joke about you that I won’t repeat. Senator Warren was the >> Oh, actually I will. He said he had reservations. >> If this was a joke, why not just say so? >> It it was a joke and he made a joke about you too, Senator Warren.
(04:54) Got got a lot of laughs. Got a lot of laughs. >> So I I don’t know if you want to respond to that. >> I do want to respond. What I can tell you is Mr. War is highly qualified. The ones who are struggling Why don’t you tell Why don’t you tell the nation what you told me that you held up Chair Pal’s nomination? >> We’re going to move on to the next one.
