Scott Besant
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Let's just be clear on that.
Again, I'm not going to get out ahead of the court.
We will follow the court's direction, but as I said, that could be weeks or months away.
That decision was not rendered on Friday.
Donald Trump should return that money immediately.
He has an obligation, $1,751 per family that were taxed by Donald Trump.
He took hundreds of billions of dollars from working folks
from the ag community, from small businesses, for this vanity play, this illegal action.
And he finally was held to account.
The rule of law won out.
Treasury's estimates show that the use of Section 122 authority combined with potentially enhanced Section 232 and Section 301 tariffs will result in virtually unchanged tariff revenue in 2026.
Look, this is what we've been setting the table for for all of 2025.
I've said that repeatedly.
We put the necessary ingredient policies into place and now they're starting to pay off.
And what's more impressive here is the number that you just gave is
The total jobs, there were more than 170,000 private sector jobs, and there was about a 40,000 decrease in government jobs.
So as I've been saying since this administration came into office, we are reprivatizing the economy.
No, but I can tell you that the Chinese have lived up to their end of the bargain.
They've completed their soybean purchases, and I was on the call with President Trump, Party Chair Xi, and again, very important, the relationship between the two leaders, and it's my belief that President Trump is the only world leader who Xi respects, and that
relationship between the two of them allows for the relationship to be respectful.