Scott Bessent: “We are not going to negotiate with the Democrats until they reopen the government. It’s very simple.”

These Trump Accounts are the most successful program launch in government history. We’ve seen seven million families sign up for them; we’re going to get to open enrollment and we will have 70 million families who have signed up for this.

Let there be no ambiguity as to the position of the United States: an economic engagement of any kind with this murderous regime will expose those responsible to the full reach of American power.

What we are going to see over the next two years — the strait is going to become irrelevant.

If you insist on doing business with them—either transferring money, buying oil, doing seaborne ship transport—then the US Treasury and the US government, they will put its full might and force towards enforcing against you.