Trump's Treasury Goon Sneers at Handing Back Tariff Loot

[Zorro]

The president’s top treasury goon appeared upbeat when discussing the likely short-changing of Americans after the Supreme Court struck down a signature economic policy.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, whose net worth Forbes estimates at around $600 million, steepled his fingers and smiled on Friday as he said that he has a “feeling” that the American people will “not see” the billions collected in tariff revenue. His prediction was delivered as he sat before a shining gold wall during an Economic Club of Dallas event.

Bessent’s comments came after a 6‑3 Supreme Court ruling that found President Donald Trump’s use of emergency powers to impose tariffs on imports from more than 100 countries was unlawful. Questions immediately arose over what would happen to the more than $175 billion in U.S. tariff collections.

The treasury secretary already walked back Trump’s pledge to hand Americans a $2,000 tariff “dividend” in November, saying then that the president’s promised payout ”could come in lots of forms and lots of ways."

In a Fox News appearance later on Friday, Bessent said that if any tariff refunds were to be given out, they would be “the ultimate corporate welfare.”

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-treasury-goon-scott-bessent-sneers-at-handing-back-tariff-loot/

Those tariff billions belong to Trump, peasants...

[no_hypocrisy]

1. Spent it already, Skippy?

[chicoescuela]

2. Yep, into tsf pocket. That's why he is really upset.

[pfitz59]

3. I guarantee the US is insolvent

All the money is gone.

[valleyrogue]

6. It can't go insolvent. n/t

[Wiz Imp]

4. So tariff refunds to individuals and families would be corporate welfare?

OMG, this guy is even stupider than I thought (and I already thought he was pretty damn stupid). Does he really think that the public will accept not getting refunds of the taxes rge paid through tariffs by dismissing them as corporate welfare?

[RoeVWade]

5. Well, the more they want to complain about giving money back and try to make ridiculous excuses is going

to be red meat for Democrats.

[Volaris]

7. Uh huh. Rick Wilson said today that you could run an entire campaings ads just on quotes from Bessent lol.

And he's not wrong.