Bessent: 'Real Wages Are Going to Increase,' Easing Affordability Issues

Bessent: ‘Real Wages Are Going to Increase,’ Easing Affordability Issues


Wednesday on Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends,” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said soon “real wages are going to increase,” which will ease the affordability issues.

Host Brian Kilmeade said, “The whole thing from the off-year elections was affordability. That was the words people like Zohran Mamdani used but they’re the ways of solving that are very different from the way you would do it. So when you look at affordability now and you go grocery shopping, for example, what products are you working on bringing down? We know that certain products are down, certain up, like for example, coffee. The president says I’m going to lower the tariff rates on Brazil, Vietnam, and other places to try to bring the price of coffee down.

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