"I believe even this morning you had two people come on and say, wow, I look at the price at the pump and I know costs are up.' Well, gasoline is down. So that is a con job. So you don't believe that all the people who went to vote last Tuesday on the issue of affordability my rent is too high. I can't afford to buy a house. Groceries are too expensive' do you think they're just misperceiving what's happening in their lives?"
"I think that they that they're that we inherited an affordability crisis. We have slowed the price increases down, and they are going to continue to slow down. And that real working class wages will go up and that that will address the affordability issue. Bessent went on to accuse Democrats of using the courts and the media to try to stop President Trump and this great economy, claiming those efforts had failed."
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent dismissed voter concerns about living costs as a media-driven "con job" while appearing on MSNBC. He cited President Donald Trump's claim that perceptions of inflation are being pushed by the media and pointed to lower gasoline prices as evidence that prices have fallen. Bessent questioned whether voters were accurately perceiving economic trends, then pivoted to say the country inherited an affordability crisis from the previous administration. He asserted price increases have slowed, predicted further slowing and rising real working-class wages, and accused Democrats of using courts and media against President Trump and the economy.
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