Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Sunday that President Donald Trump's proposal to issue $2,000 tariff rebate checks to most Americans would require Congress' approval.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said that President Donald Trump's proposal to issue $2,000 tariff rebate checks to most Americans would require Congress' approval. https://cnn.it/4peqsoH
-- CNN (@cnn.com) Nov 16, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent bleated that beef prices are high because immigrants are smuggling diseased cattle from South America across the border: x.com
Update ...
Trump says no $2,000 checks before Christmas but expects them to go out next year
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@#2 ... here's a sucker born every minute. - PT Barnum ...
Funny you should mention him.
I drive by the house he was born in from time to time.
He also was elected Mayor of Bridgeport, CT.
P. T. Barnum
en.wikipedia.org
... Phineas Taylor Barnum (July 5, 1810 " April 7, 1891) was an American showman, businessman, and politician remembered for promoting celebrated hoaxes and founding with James Anthony Bailey the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus.[1] He was also an author, publisher, and philanthropist, although he said of himself: "I am a showman by profession ... and all the gilding shall make nothing else of me."[2]
According to Barnum's critics, his personal aim was "to put money in his own coffers".[2] The adage "there's a sucker born every minute" has frequently been attributed to him, although no evidence exists that he had coined the phrase.[3] ...
Barnum served two terms in the Connecticut legislature in 1865 as a Republican for Fairfield, Connecticut.
He spoke before the legislature concerning the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which abolished slavery and involuntary servitude: "A human soul, 'that God has created and Christ died for,' is not to be trifled with. It may tenant the body of a Chinaman, a Turk, an Arab, or a Hottentot"it is still an immortal spirit."[5]
He was elected in 1875 as mayor of Bridgeport, Connecticut, where he worked to improve the water supply, bring gas lighting to streets and enforce liquor and prostitution laws.
He was instrumental in the inception of Bridgeport Hospital in 1878 and was its first president.[6]
The circus business, begun when he was 60 years old, was the source of much of his enduring fame. He established P. T. Barnum's Grand Traveling Museum, Menagerie, Caravan & Hippodrome in 1870, a traveling circus, menagerie and museum of "freaks" that adopted many names over the years. ...
fwiw ...
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