During an interview with Tucker Carlson, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent let slip that companies don't need to worry about creating manufacturing jobs as a result of Trump's tariffs. They can move jobs to the United States and avoid the problem of paying their workers high wages by using robots and AI.
He also suggested that all the federal workers being fired could get jobs at these factories. It was a wide-ranging and deeply unhinged interview that I break down further in my recent video on YouTube. Check it out.
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