{"id":15833,"date":"2025-11-19T18:17:01","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T18:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/bessent-talks-midterms-acid-test-tariff-rebates-with-house-republicans\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T18:17:01","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T18:17:01","slug":"bessent-talks-midterms-acid-test-tariff-rebates-with-house-republicans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/bessent-talks-midterms-acid-test-tariff-rebates-with-house-republicans\/","title":{"rendered":"Bessent talks midterms \u2018acid test,\u2019 tariff rebates with House Republicans"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent chatted Wednesday with a group of House Republicans about how voters will judge the GOP\u2019s tax and trade moves heading into the 2026 midterm elections, according to House Budget Chair <a href=\"https:\/\/directory.politicopro.com\/member\/259549\" data-person-id=\"259549\">Jodey Arrington<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>During the private meeting Arrington hosted on Capitol Hill, Bessent discussed President Donald Trump\u2019s economic policy strategy with Republican members of the budget panel, including steps to spurring economic growth and reducing the amount of red ink the federal government racks up each year as the national debt tops $38 trillion.<\/p>\n<p>Bessent mentioned the \u201cacid test of the midterms,\u201d Arrington said, which is, \u201cAm I doing better today than I did when we first elected this new unified Republican leadership in our nation\u2019s capital?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When tax refunds roll in this spring, U.S. voters are going to \u201csee historic refunds\u201d that put \u201cmore money in their pockets\u201d thanks to the <a href=\"https:\/\/legislation.politicopro.com\/bill\/US_119_HR_1\" target=\"_blank\">GOP megabill<\/a> Trump signed into law in July, Arrington said. \u201cAnd that was all part of the plan \u2014 of not just bringing prices down and growing the economy but making life more affordable for the American people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The group also discussed Trump\u2019s proposal to send $2,000 rebate checks to Americans by tapping into the hundreds of billions of dollars in new revenue generated by the president\u2019s tariffs. Arrington is not a fan of the idea, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/11\/13\/republicans-in-congress-lukewarm-to-the-idea-of-tariff-rebate-checks-00650747\" target=\"_blank\">like many other Republican lawmakers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe best way to put money in people&#8217;s pockets is to have good pro-growth policies, and to believe and trust that those policies will work to the end of more jobs and bigger paychecks,\u201d Arrington told reporters after the meeting.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent chatted Wednesday with a group of House Republicans about how voters will judge the GOP\u2019s tax and trade moves heading into the 2026 midterm elections, according to House Budget Chair Jodey Arrington. During the private meeting Arrington hosted on Capitol Hill, Bessent discussed President Donald Trump\u2019s economic policy strategy with Republican [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15833\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}