Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, responding Sunday to a new Washington Post/ABC News poll showing President Donald Trump’s polling numbers on the economy being underwater, said consumers’ spending habits don’t match up with what the surveys are saying. 

“For the past 35 years, my business was analyzing data, so I think we’ve probably got to dig down into those,” Bessent told ABC News “This Week” host Martha Raddatz.

“What I do know is that Americans are behaving very differently from what the surveys say,” he added. “So the surveys may say that, but consumers are still spending. So I prefer to look at what Americans are doing rather than how they’re answering pollsters.”

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