Scott Bessent
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I'm not concerned at all.
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Good to be with you.
Happy to review the year, talk about next year.
There's a lot going on.
I would categorize 2025.
We had some important victories, some important policy announcements.
some important movement.
But as I've described it, 2025 was setting the table.
And especially on the economy, I think the feast and the banquet is going to be in 2026.
To start with the budget deficit,
We didn't get much credit because it came out during the shutdown.
The U.S.
fiscal year is on September 30th.
We had a slight fiscal contraction for the year.
Wasn't much, but much better than the 2.1%.
zero trillion that was estimated.
We came down from about 1.8 trillion to 1.78.
So a contraction.
Nonetheless, for the calendar year, we're making great progress.