“Sir, I think it could set off a financial crisis, the likes of which we have not seen since ’08, ’09,” he said during a House Ways and Means Committee hearing Wednesday.
Scott Bessent warns that failure to pass Trump’s ‘big, beautiful’ bill would trigger ‘financial crisis’
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June 11, 2025
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