TREASURY SECRETARY, SCOTT BESSENT: We have rediscovered at great cost what America’s first @USTreasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton taught us: the nation that depends on its adversaries for critical inputs is neither truly sovereign nor truly prosperous.

Hamilton you say? https://t.co/PomYmKy72l

— Tom Luongo (@TFL1728) June 24, 2026

from Treasury Secretary, Scott Bessent,

We have rediscovered at great cost what America’s first

@USTreasury

Secretary Alexander Hamilton taught us: the nation that depends on its adversaries for critical inputs is neither truly sovereign nor truly prosperous.

As we approach 250 years of American independence, we would do well to remember that our founders left us more than a Republic—they bequeathed a roadmap powerful enough to sustain it for two and a half centuries and beyond.