Scott Bessent

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Bannon`s War Room · Episode 5566: One On One With treasury Secretary Scott Bessent · 4 Aug 2026 podcast

And I think that manufacturing is back. matched

A couple of my friends on the Democratic side, when I go in for my hearings, look, well, you promised a manufacturing revival. matched

And you can't have, look, I can snap my fingers and trade in the yen, but I can't snap my fingers and build a factory. matched

What I can do is, matched

is make the conditions for factory construction in the US the best possible place in the world. matched

We can have tax certainty, regulatory certainty, and energy certainty, and we are seeing company and the trade certainty with the tariffs, and we are seeing factories come back and matched

you initially see construction jobs that turn into good paying factory jobs. matched

And that's exactly what we're seeing. matched

We're seeing, like, if you look in the data, it's under structures or non-residential construction is off the chart. matched

And Steve, to your point, the other thing that's happening is this deregulatory agenda that I did not realize before I came into government, the U.S. matched

had made the decision to deindustrialize. matched

We often make fun. matched

You do it. matched

We do it a lot on the right. matched

for what the Europeans, specifically the Germans, who were manufacturing powerhouse, made the decision to deindustrialize a lot of it through energy policy, through these ridiculous green policies. matched

Well, we made the decision matched

decades ago to deindustrialize, and a lot of that was through environmental policy. matched

When I talk to factories who want to come back, they say, like, the EPA drove us out. matched

What can you do for us? matched

And Lee Zeldin, the president calls him Rookie of the Year in the cabinet. matched

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