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Full transcript: See the Washington Examiner’s Scott Bessent interview about a ‘blue-collar boom’

By Christian Datoc
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EXCLUSIVE — On Labor Day, Scott Bessent showed up to work just after 9 a.m.

While most of the country was celebrating the holiday on Monday, the treasury secretary made three stops across the greater Washington area to visit with and support restaurant workers who, like him, did not get the day off, and pump up the “no tax on tips” provision nested inside President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act.

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