SCOOP: Treasury Secretary Bessent to huddle with key Republican caucus as Trump enacts tariff plan

FIRST ON FOX: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent volition beryllium connected Capitol Hill again connected Wednesday to conscionable with a cardinal Republican caucus, Fox News Digital has learned.

A root acquainted with the readying told Fox News Digital that Bessent is among the speakers astatine the Republican Study Committee's play luncheon connected Wednesday. Discussions are apt to absorption on tariffs and the fund reconciliation process, the root anticipated. It comes arsenic House Republicans wrestle with a mode guardant connected some fronts.

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House Republicans connected the Republican Study Committee are gathering with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, left, connected Wednesday. (Getty)

On tariffs, immoderate Republican lawmakers person said they would similar much clarity from the White House connected President Donald Trump's plans – including whether his sweeping import taxes connected friends and foes are a dialog maneuver oregon a substance of semipermanent policy.

One GOP lawmaker told Fox News Digital that Trump's messaging has been "well-received" but added, "It would beryllium bully to person much information."

Rep. Don Bacon, R-Neb., who is starring a bipartisan measure to retake Congress' powerfulness connected tariffs, told reporters connected Tuesday, "I don't similar the thought of waging a commercialized warfare with the full world, and that's what we're doing close now." 

"I mean, I surely enactment tariffs connected China. It's not that I reason each tariffs, I deliberation determination are immoderate countries that would request it. But I question wherefore connected Canada," Bacon said.

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Rep. August Pfluger, R-Texas, is president of the Republican Study Committee. (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Others, similar Rep. Mike Haridopolos, R-Fla., were much supportive – though helium besides signaled helium saw it arsenic much of a negotiating tool.

"I judge successful just and escaped trade, I truly do, but what we person close present is not fair, and it's not escaped – we wage a disproportionate taxation to different nations," Haridopolos told Fox News Digital. "Whatever you taxation me, I'll taxation you. Even better, if there's nary taxation betwixt the 2 countries, that's a triumph for the United States successful general."

"I deliberation the president has taken a beardown presumption to say, ‘We’re a precise generous country, and….all we're asking for is for our trading partners to dainty america the mode they privation to beryllium treated.'"

The Republican Study Committee has much than 170 members and acts arsenic the House Republican conference's de facto deliberation vessel astatine times.

Bessent, meanwhile, opened the doorway to utilizing tariffs arsenic a hardball maneuver successful commercialized talks with different countries – apt invited quality for Republicans who were acrophobic astir the semipermanent interaction connected their districts.

He told CNBC connected Tuesday greeting that helium and U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer were tapped to pb talks with Japan. He besides said Trump himself would beryllium "directly progressive successful those negotiations."

"There are 50, 60, possibly astir 70 countries present who person approached us. So it's going to beryllium a engaged April, May, possibly into June. And Japan is simply a precise important subject ally," Bessent said. "And the U.S. has a batch of past with them, truthful I would expect that Japan's going to get priority, conscionable due to the fact that they came guardant precise quickly. But it's going to beryllium precise busy."

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President Donald Trump holds a illustration arsenic helium delivers remarks connected reciprocal tariffs during an lawsuit successful the Rose Garden entitled "Make America Wealthy Again" astatine the White House successful Washington, D.C., connected April 2, 2025. (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

On the different end, the White House is moving with House GOP leaders to person critics of the Senate's mentation of a sweeping measure to beforehand Trump's agenda.

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Republicans are aiming to usage their majorities to walk a monolithic portion of authorities dealing with borderline security, vigor and defense, arsenic good arsenic extending Trump's 2017 taxation policies. 

Fiscal hawks are aggravated that the Senate's mentation of the measure mandates a minimum of $4 cardinal successful cuts, whereas the House program calls for astatine slightest $1.5 trillion.

Fox News Digital reached retired to the Treasury Department but did not instantly perceive back.