Bessent: Federal layoffs will help fill factory jobs created by Trump tariffs

Trump’s Plan for Laid-Off Federal Workers: Get a Factory Job

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent explains to Tucker Carlson how tariffs and DOGE layoffs will together create a manlier workforce filling real jobs in factories and mines.

Fired Federal Workers Can Just Go Work In Factories, Says Trump Treasury Secretary

Are you a recently fired federal worker trying to figure out your next steps? Well, Trump Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has some great news for you! You can just get a job in one of the factories that will be built here once the Trump tariffs bring all of the manufacturing back.“So what we are doing: On one side, the president is reordering trade. On the other side, we are shedding excess labor in the federal government and bringing down fede…

Trump's Tariffs Aren't Economics. They're a Cultural Purge

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent recently appeared on Tucker Carlson’s show and said the quiet part out loud: “The president is reordering trade… we are shedding excess labor in the federal government… that will give us the labor we need for the new manufacturing.”  At any other time, that kind of language would set off alarm bells across the political spectrum. Are laid-off NIH cancer researchers really going to find jobs in the iPhone factorie…

Fired federal workers could work factory jobs created by tariffs: Bessent

The Treasury secretary said former government employees could create the labor pool necessary for America's manufacturing revival.

Treasury secretary wants fired federal staffers to work in factories

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said that the thousands of federal workers President Donald Trump and co-President Elon Musk have fired will become the workforce in factories Trump says will return to America thanks to his new tariff policy. Bessent...

Bessent: Federal layoffs will help fill factory jobs created by Trump tariffs

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the Trump administration is planning to boost U.S. manufacturing employment with policies meant to steer laid-off federal workers into factories. In an interview with Tucker Carlson published Friday on the social platform X, the Treasury secretary said he believed the U.S. had enough workers to fill thousands of manufacturing jobs…