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Bessent Floats Longer-Term China Truce

Bessent: Rare Earth Problem Was Decades In The Making, Every Past Administration Should Be Ashamed

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent joins CNBC's Sara Eisen at the CNBC 'Invest in America' Forum in Washington, D.C. TREASURY SECRETARY SCOTT BESSENT: We have lots of levers that we can pull for products that they need that could be equally damaging.

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Bessent Floats Longer-Term China Truce After Rare Earths Gambit

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Bessent Says U.S. Has More Powerful Levers to Pull Than China in Rare-Earth Minerals Spat

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Trump ready to meet with China's Xi in South Korea, Bessent says

A federal judge in California on Wednesday ordered President Donald Trump's administration to halt mass layoffs of federal workers during a partial government shutdown while she considers claims by u...

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Trump aide says Washington won’t soften Beijing trade stance despite market volatility

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US Treasury chief ‘optimistic’ over China trade talks

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US buys more Argentine pesos, working on $20 billion debt facility, Bessent says

The U.S. again purchased Argentine pesos in the open market on Wednesday, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told reporters, adding that the department was working with banks and investment funds to cr...

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U.S. Arranging $20 Billion Private Finance Facility for Argentina

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U.S. working on $20 billion private facility for Argentina, Bessent says

Bessent says shutdown is costing US $15 billion a day

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Bessent says government shutdown 'starting to cut into muscle' and economy may be losing billions per day

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent warned the ongoing government shutdown could cost the U.S. economy up to $15 billion daily as it enters its third week.

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Shutdown Now Costs U.S. Economy $15 Billion a Day, Bessent Says

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Shutdown may start costing economy $15B a week: Bessent

Scott Bessent says Chinese top trade envoy came to Washington uninvited

US treasury secretary Scott Bessent rebuked China’s top trade envoy, Li Chenggang, for allegedly acting “unhinged” and threatening to “unleash chaos” on the global system during an “uninvited” visit to Washington in August.

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U.S. will 'neither be commanded nor controlled' by China, Bessent says as trade standoff deepens

Beijing has yet to approve the sale of TikTok U.S., increase soybean purchases or ease export controls, despite several rounds of U.S. trade talks.

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Bessent and Greer play ‘good cop, bad cop’ with China trade war

Bessent has steadily grown into his role as Trump’s market whisperer over the past nine months and was more tempered than Greer.

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Scott Bessent Reveals Threat Made by ‘Unhinged’ Chinese Official

The top Trump official said China's rare earth export controls were "clearly something that they were planning all along."

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Scott Bessent Says US Will Hit China With 'Price Floors'

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent revealed the United States will introduce price floors in to combat China's global manipulation of various markets, including rare Earth materials.

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Bessent: Rising power costs a ‘binding constraint’ of Trump AI boom

Bessent did point to three specific ways that federal and state governments can offset rising electricity costs.

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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on industrial policy: We have to be vigilant

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent joins CNBC's Sara Eisen at the CNBC 'Invest in America' Forum in Washington, D.C.

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Bessent Calls China Trade Negotiator An ‘Unhinged’ Wolf Warrior

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent lashed out at a top Chinese trade official, saying he turned up in Washington recently uninvited and behaved in an “unhinged” fashion typical of Beijing’s so-called wolf warrior diplomats.

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Scott Bessent urges IMF to unload swanky Maryland country club: ‘They can start by selling the golf course’

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Tuesday urged the International Monetary Fund to sell a swanky country club it owns in Maryland after The Post revealed how its staff qualify for discounted

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Trump administration won’t negotiate with China because stock market is going down, says Scott Bessent

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, on 15 October 2025, dismissed the notion that a decline in the stock market would force the Trump administration into a negotiating position with China. Here's what Bessent

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Scott Bessent Wants To Wage A Post-9/11-Style War On The American Left

The treasury secretary said the killing of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk was "a domestic 9/11" during an appearance on the late podcaster's show.