Scott Besson

Number two, they cannot collect government benefits, period.

Number three, they have to pay all back taxes and a fine for coming into this country illegally and go through this process.

Then they are deported.

You have to abide by the terms of this.

And part of this, and I fundamentally believe, if you gave people an option to come out of the shadows...

to stop hiding and skirting a legal process, if you gave them a process forward that foregoes any path to citizenship, they would take it.

Lawmakers had wide ranging questions about President Trump's economic agenda for Treasury Secretary Scott Besson.

But things went off the rails at times during questioning by Democrats like New York Congressman Gregory Meeks.

The committee's ranking member, Maxine Waters, questioned Besson about tariffs, arguing levies on lumber and steel are driving up housing costs.

Reclaiming my time.

Reclaiming my time.

During Besson's time, he emphasized his concern over the health of smaller community banks, which he says do most of the agriculture and small business lending.

Fox's Jessica Rosenthal.

Stocks turning lower.

The U.S.

always has a strong dollar policy, but a strong dollar policy means setting the right fundamentals.

And I think that with President Trump, with the one big beautiful bill, with our regulatory policies, we are making this the best place to come, build your business, have tax certainty, regulatory certainty, energy certainty.

I was in the Oval with the president today.

He spoke to Prime Minister Carney, who was...

very aggressively walking back some of the unfortunate remarks he made at Davos.