Scott Bessent: “This is interference in U.S. sovereign matters.”

This is going to be the greatest coordinated economic isolation in the history of the world, and we are going to them and saying, you are either with us or against us.

I think there is a chance we may have a deal today or tomorrow to open the Strait and move towards a more normalized position in this conflict.

We do not ask bankers to assume the burdens of border enforcement, but we depend on banks to do what you do best: know your customers, identify risks as they arise, and report suspicious patterns before they metastasize into criminal…

This administration will not tolerate blatant abuse of our financial system, nor will it permit risks posed by the extension of financial services to illegal aliens.