WATCH: Bessent defends Trump’s ‘strategic uncertainty,’ says certainty ‘not necessarily a good thing in negotiating’

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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Tuesday that the economic uncertainty upending global financial markets is a tool President Donald Trump can use as he negotiates tariffs and trade deals. "President Trump creates what I would call strategic uncertainty in the negotiations," he told reporters at the White House.

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"I think the aperture of uncertainty will be narrowing and, as we start moving forward announcing deals, then there will be certainty," Bessent said. "But certainty is not necessarily a good thing in negotiating."

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To those with questions about the market uncertainty, Leavitt added: "I would say, trust in President Trump."


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