Bessent: $100B in tariff revenue so far, $300B expected by end of year
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, at President Donald Trump's Cabinet meeting on Tuesday, was asked to discuss the impact of tariffs.
"We will have taken in about $100 billion in tariff income thus far this year," Bessent said. "And that's with the tariff -- the major tariff not having started until the second quarter. So we could expect that could be well over 300 billion by the end of the year. We don't agree with CBO scoring, but for those who do, the CBO scored tariff income over the next ten years at 2.8 trillion, which we think is probably low."
The news comes as Trump again delayed steep levies on dozens of countries that were set to take effect on Wednesday to August 1.








