U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent speaks during the daily press briefing in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House on April 29, 2025 in Washington, DC.
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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Monday sketched out the roadmap of President Donald Trump’s “America First Vision” in a pitch to a roomful of global investors on the future of the United States economy.
“We have uprooted government waste and harmful regulations. We have planted the seeds of private investment. And we have fertilized the ground with fresh tax legislation. Next, we harvest. And we want you to harvest with us,” Bessent said in a speech at the Milken Institute Global Conference.
The Cabinet secretary highlighted tariffs, tax cuts and deregulation as the three core components of Trump’s economic agenda, echoing his op-ed published in The Wall Street Journal earlier Monday morning.
But where that piece prioritized boosting Main Street alongside Wall Street, Bessent’s remarks to the private-jet crowd at the Milken conference were an explicit appeal to a tiny group of ultra-wealthy investors and entrepreneurs.
“The administration’s goal is to make it even more appealing for investors like you,” Bessent said.
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