Statement from U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent for the World Bank Development Committee and IMF International Monetary and Financial Committee

This year’s Annual Meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank provide an important opportunity to engage on current global economic challenges as well as our work with partners and the international financial institutions to support a pro-growth agenda, macroeconomic and financial stability, and poverty reduction. We thank Thailand for hosting us for the Annual Meetings.In the United States, President Trump’s America First Investment Policy is promoting robust economic growth and prosperity, fiscal prudence, energy abundance, and regulatory modernization. Internationally, we are getting back to basics by forging a broad consensus on the need to promote growth as the key condition on which durable prosperity depends.