Treasury secretary Scott Bessent defends the new administration\u2019s aggressive trade strategy<\/p>\n
Buying cheap products is \u201cnot the essence of the American dream\u201d, Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s top economic official has declared, amid warnings that the US president\u2019s trade wars risk increasing prices.<\/p>\n The US treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, defended the new administration\u2019s aggressive trade strategy on Thursday, two days after it imposed sweeping tariffs<\/a> on Canada and Mexico and hiked duties on China.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Treasury secretary Scott Bessent defends the new administration\u2019s aggressive trade strategy Buying cheap products is \u201cnot the essence of the American dream\u201d, Donald Trump\u2019s top economic official has declared, amid warnings that the US president\u2019s trade wars risk increasing prices. The US treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, defended the new administration\u2019s aggressive trade strategy on Thursday, … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}