Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Donald Trump is not asking the Federal Reserve to lower its short-term interest rates, but what he and the president do want is to bring down longer-term borrowing costs via 10-year Treasury yields.
“He and I are focused on the 10-year Treasury,” Bessent said in an interview with Fox Business’s Larry Kudlow, who was director of the National Economic Council during Trump’s first term.
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