Lutnick to Newsmax: ‘Big Dog’ China Deal Is Up to Treasury’s Bessent

Lutnick to Newsmax: 'Big Dog' China Deal Is Up to Treasury's Bessent

Lutnick to Newsmax: ‘Big Dog’ China Deal Is Up to Treasury’s Bessent

In traditional baseball parlance and reworking the global trade order, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick tells Newsmax he is the table-setting leadoff man, while Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent will be the cleanup hitter with “big dog” and “gorilla” China, and President Donald Trump will ultimately be the closer.

“Every country in the world will make a better deal with America, we will grow our GDP, and then we will be focused on the one gorilla in the room, which is China,” Lutnick told “Rob Schmitt Tonight” in an exclusive sitdown Wednesday. “And that’s got to be worked out, but that’s got to be worked out at the top.

“We all know where that’s going to be worked out; that’s going to be worked out with Donald J. Trump and President Xi [Jinping]. We know that’s the way it’s going to work.”

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