Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent: “All Hands on Deck” in Trump Admin to “Bring Down Inflation”

WASHINGTON — Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told Breitbart News exclusively on Thursday that President Donald Trump’s administration is employing an “all hands on deck” whole-of-government approach to undoing the damage to the economy that Democrats like former President Joe Biden left behind.

Bessent sat with Breitbart News for a more-than-half-hour-long exclusive on-camera interview in the Salmon Chase Suite at Treasury Department headquarters in downtown Washington, DC, next door to the White House. The suite, named for onetime treasury secretary and later Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Salmon Chase, is one of the most historic offices in the building. It is in this room where Chase and then-President Abraham Lincoln developed much of the modern monetary policy for the United States as a way to finance the preservation of the American Republic during the Civil War. Greenbacks, the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, and even the IRS can trace their roots to this room. -- More....