Scott Bessent: “I don’t think (President Trump) knows about it. I don’t think he would be happy about it.”

Must be shuttered and dark," Bessent said about Iran's Bank Melli.

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.

I can’t think of a problem in society that can’t be traced in some way back to the abuses of organized labor.

I emphasized that we expect Beijing to fully meet its commitments on rare earths and U.S. agricultural products.