Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Wednesday called for the Senate Democrats to end the government shutdown, saying it “may start costing the U.S. economy up to $15 billion a day.”

Speaking to reporters from his department’s Washington, D.C. headquarters alongside U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer, the secretary said “moderate Democrats” can make a “very simple decision” to become “heroes.”

“Thank you all for being here at Treasury today in the midst of this shutdown,” Bessent began. “We call on the moderate Democrats in the Senate to be heroes. Be heroes, break away from the hive of radicalism and do something for the American people, because we are starting to cut into muscle here.”

“We believe that the shutdown may start costing the U.S. economy up to $15 billion a day,” the

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