Scott Besson

Well, we know it's happened.

And as I said, that if I could snap my fingers and fix affordability,

We would, but we are laying the groundwork over the next three, six, nine, 12 months and before the end of the president's term to get working Americans back with real wage growth.

So it's wage growth and stopping the inflation and bringing prices down where we can.

And Steve, you mentioned the elections, that a lot of the elections in New Jersey,

A lot of it was energy prices that Governor Phil Murphy had put into place.

It was this misplaced green energy that caused prices to skyrocket 20 percent.

This administration, if Secretary Burgum, Wright, even President Trump has been on the phone with the governor of New York, Kathy Hochul, let us put two pipelines

through New York, and we can lower your energy costs, we can lower energy costs in New England, and they won't do it.

So at Treasury, we're actually going to go through state by state and see where the inflation is, because there are some things that this administration can control, but we can't control the crazy things that states do in terms of energy pricing or overregulation.

Why is South Carolina the leading recipient of inbound immigration for Americans as a percent of the population because Governor McMaster is open for business?

This plant here was...

terminated in eight weeks.

So if you want to build things, if you want to create jobs, then you can do it.

But there are the blue states out there who are recalcitrant.

To make it even worse, and I want to make two more points.

To make it even worse, many parts of the tax bill that were President Trump's signature working class, the

pieces of the tax bill, no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, no tax on Social Security, auto deductibility, if you buy an American car, many of the blue states are not going to include that in their state taxes.

They do not, because they have such Trump derangement syndrome, they want to hurt their own people to keep them from doing well because those were President Trump's signature policies.

Steve, as you know, I am also the IRS commissioner, so I can see the data.