Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent feels disheartened after analysis from his alma mater claimed households shall be about $2,400 worse off this 12 months due to President Donald Trump’s tariffs. “I’ll level out that the Yale Price range Lab is generally staffed by Biden and Democratic alumni, in order that they have a selected viewpoint. It isn’t nonpartisan,” Bessent instructed MSNBC’s Morning Joe on Thursday. “Sadly, it’s my alma mater, which makes me unhappy.” Bessent dismissed the evaluation from the Price range Lab at Yale, the Ivy League college he graduated from in 1984, after Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough pressed him on the financial fallout from Trump’s aggressive tariff agenda.
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