Five Questions for Trump Adviser Scott Bessent

① Where do you fit in the Trump campaign?

I made the decision to come out from behind my desk because, when we talk about the future, I think we have two very different choices. This election cycle is the last chance for the US to grow our way out of this mountain of debt without becoming a sort of European-style socialist democracy. We have historically tended to run fairly steady levels of government tax revenue as a percentage of gross domestic product and expenditures at around 20%. Now we’re bumping up around 23%. One of the reasons that I ...