{"id":481038,"date":"2026-02-21T02:27:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T02:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/481038\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T02:27:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T02:27:09","slug":"us-economy-can-grow-at-least-3-5-in-2026-bessent-tells-fox-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/481038\/","title":{"rendered":"US economy can grow at least 3.5% in 2026, Bessent tells Fox News"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">WASHINGTON, Feb 20 (Reuters) &#8211; U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott \u200cBessent told &#8220;The Will Cain \u200cShow&#8221; on Fox News on Friday \u200bthat he believed the U.S. economy could grow by at least 3.5% \u200cin 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">Bessent \u2060blamed the sharply lower growth of 1.4% \u2060in gross domestic product reported in the \u200bfourth quarter on \u200ba \u200bpartial government \u200cshutdown and high write-offs of losses by U.S. automakers, saying GDP growth could have been 100 to \u200c200 basis points \u200bhigher.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">&#8220;It was \u200bthis \u200blongest shutdown in \u200chistory that caused the \u200bfourth \u200bquarter to crash,&#8221; Bessent said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">(Reporting by Andrea Shalal, \u200bBhargav \u200cAcharya and Ismail Shakil;Editing \u200bby David Ljunggren and \u200bDiane Craft)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON, Feb 20 (Reuters) &#8211; U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott \u200cBessent told &#8220;The Will Cain \u200cShow&#8221; on Fox News&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":481039,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[28,101,11320,22389,221914,4666],"class_list":["post-481038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-fox-news","tag-gross-domestic-product","tag-partial-government-shutdown","tag-scott-bessent"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/481039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}