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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
John Bowden

Bessent promises Americans won’t face tax hikes to fund Trump’s war in Iran: ‘We have plenty’

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent denied that Americans would foot the bill on Sunday as the Pentagon prepares to push Congress for hundreds of billions of dollars to continue the war in Iran.

Bessent appeared on NBC’s Meet the Press Sunday as the war with Iran pushed into its fourth week, and claimed that the administration would not seek a tax increase to pay for the Pentagon’s reported $200 billion funding request.

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