Scott Bessent: I See Before Me a Movement that Ensures We Don’t Go Back to the Unfair Trade or Unfettered Immigration

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BESSENT: "For the most fitting way to honor those who founded this great nation is to meet the challenges our own time with the same resolve they brought to theirs. Remember, the American story is not self-sustaining. It requires each generation to decide anew whether its next chapter will be written by those who believe in this country or those who apologize for it. Tonight, I can see where the Republican Party and the American people stand. I can see that you know what’s at stake. I see before me a movement that has never been more united or more determined to ensure we don’t go back to the unfair trade or unfettered immigration —
(Cheering and Applause)
— to a politics that places migrants who break our laws before citizens who abide by them, to a government that settles for stagnation to (sic) a global order that prioritizes cheap labor over a strong American workforce."