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Scott Bessent Tosses Out an Economic Valentine to Texas

The state gets some White House love ahead of Tuesday’s primary

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent at his Economic Club of Dallas speech. 

Photographer: Richard Rodriguez/Getty Images

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The world’s eighth-largest economy earned a Valentine from Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent the other day.