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Transcript: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan," March 2, 2025

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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says Americans are paying for food, groceries and housing.

He says he's working to get these prices down every day , but it took four years to get us here.

President Trump has been in office five weeks , and I can tell you, we're working every day.

There's a series of tariffs to come March 4 , and then there's the big tariff program that's going to be outlined on April 2 by commerce and USTR .

Mexico has offered to match the US tariffs on China , and that you would like for the Canadians to do so as well as Mexico as well.

Secretary of State Scott Bessent: President Zelensky has thrown off the sequencing of a peace deal.

He says the idea was to intertwine the American people and Ukrainian people and show no daylight.

There aren't even negotiations for peace deal anyway, he says.

The plan is for the European Union to provide security, not NATO , the EU .

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