Scott Bessent: “The Commerce Department has the pen.”

“for months” he has been in favor of putting Megaspeed, the data company whose executive is an alleged Chinese spy, on a trade blacklist to stop Nvidia from exporting advanced chips to Beijing.

What we are here to do is to prosecute criminal fraud. And any question like that that deflects away from it, I think is a waste of our time.

Economic asphyxiation

When greed meets negligence, the American people suffer.