Scott Bessent: “It’s not a new deadline. We are saying, 'This is when it’s happening. If you want to speed things up, have at it.'”

We are going to collapse this regime. It is time for our allies and the rest of the world to make a decision.

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.

The world is awash in debt, and the only way for us to get out of this is to grow our way out of this.

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.