Scott Bessent: “We treated efficiency as a substitute for resilience, and consumption as a measure of prosperity.”

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.

No one is above this. This is economic asphyxiation of this regime … and no one should test our resolve.

Core inflation is low. Consumer confidence is strong. We have the highest consumer confidence — it came out today — in five months.

Working alongside our law enforcement partners, we will continue to disrupt the cartels' drug trafficking operations and protect our borders.