During a Fox Business interview after Trump spoke at at the Economic Club of New York in September, Bessent was asked what he liked most about Trump's economic plan.

"I think it's the melding of economic policy with national security. Economic policy and national security are now inseparable, and Donald Trump understands that," Bessent said then, adding that Trump's vision was "a formula for independence and energy and manufacturing, for getting our finances in order."

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