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The market is not hearing what it wants to hear from Trump’s economic team

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Investors are hearing a lot these days from Trump economic officials about trade and DOGE and the benefits of falling stock prices — but not as much about things that could stop the selling, such as the push for tax cuts.

That’s in part because tariff talk is perhaps drowning out everything else for markets but also because the slow pace of Capitol Hill tax talks has offered Trump’s team very little in the way of news to share.

A recent example of the dynamic came over the weekend when Trump’s top tax evangelist, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, appeared on NBC’s Meet the Press but only directly brought up tax cuts once in the 11-minute conversation.

“Corrections are healthy,” he offered instead, referring to recent market losses.

Bessent only mentioned tax cuts briefly to say that tax changes would be felt by markets “over the long term” alongside other more market-friendly ideas like increased energy production and deregulation.

It’s a dynamic likely to continue in the foreseeable future, with lawmakers currently out of Washington for recess as tariff speculation mounts ahead of a key April 2 deadline and Elon Musk’s DOGE effort as prominent as ever.

That left Bessent, for this weekend at least, spending time focused not on tax cuts but on trying to convince taxpayers that Elon Musk’s DOGE cuts at the IRS wouldn’t hurt the coming tax filing season.

WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 07: U.S. Secretary of Treasury Scott Bessent and U.S. President Donald Trump look on during The White House Digital Assets Summit in the State Dining Room of the White House on March 07, 2025 in Washington, DC. Trump held the summit to hear from crypto leaders on how his administration has invested in digital assets. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
Secretary of Treasury Scott Bessent and President Donald Trump talk during a White House event on March 7. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images) · Anna Moneymaker via Getty Images

The president’s louder message about tariffs when compared with taxes was also touched on by Evercore ISI’s Sarah Bianchi in a recent research note.

She wrote that Trump has put forth an array of troubling policies for markets to kick off his administration but “perhaps more troubling is the erratic nature of policy implementation, making risk assessment and pricing exceedingly difficult.”

As for the question of whether Trump will soon pivot to taxes to calm markets, she said “even this isn’t a clean story,” adding that “some of these efforts will simply take time, and the outcomes will be uneven across sectors.”

The slow pace of talks on Capitol Hill has also contributed to a larger downplaying of tax cuts for now.

Some have sought to cast last week’s shutdown drama as a sign that Republicans may be able to unite behind a tax bill after House Speaker Mike Johnson corralled his caucus to unify and force Democrats’ hand even as much more complicated tax issues loom.

That debate ground on last week — with the House Ways and Means Committee gathering to try and move closer to a deal — but headlines were of course dominated by Trump tariffs and threats that often changed by the hour.

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Henrietta Treyz, the director of economic policy at Veda Partners, also said in a recent Yahoo Finance appearance that markets have been downplaying the fact that “there are no tax cuts, there is an extension of the status quo.”

She is pointing out that the main tax change under debate is to extend the current rates that were implemented in the Trump-signed 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act but are set to expire at the end of this year.

And even that change is expected to be a heavy lift.

Trump and House Republicans have promised an array of additional tax provisions and are increasingly considering an accounting maneuver that could make the cuts look like zero. But Treyz said the embrace of that maneuver — known as a so-called current policy baseline — represents a double-edged sword, as it “is de facto an admission that the bill they’re working on is not a tax cut.”

The uncertainty on the tax front also comes as the Trump team has offered a scattered message on many fronts, with even Trump’s market-friendly aides such as Bessent offering a full embrace of tariffs.

The contrast between Bessent’s interview this weekend and earlier moments like his confirmation hearing is stark. During that hearing, Bessent called tax cuts the most important issue before him and described getting them done as “pass-fail.”

Instead, markets are much more likely to hear things like rhetoric used by Trump ally Chris Lacivita, who recently called those worried about stock losses “bed wetters.”

In a recent podcast appearance, Trump’s former co-campaign manager pointed out that the president just got through a campaign that featured assassination attempts and criminal prosecutions, saying, “Anybody with the stomach to endure all that … shouldn’t be underestimated in his capacity to handle some ups and downs in the stock market.”

Ben Werschkul is Washington correspondent for Yahoo Finance.

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