Bessent says Treasury auctions will continue as usual despite expanded buyback program

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Monday that the regularly scheduled Treasury auctions of U.S. debt are expected to continue per usual after his agency announced an increase in the size of buybacks of longer-dated securities.Bessent spoke Monday at a press conference to discuss a new plan for the "economic asphyxiation" of the Iranian regime through the implementation of secondary sanctions on Iran's trading partners.During the press conference, the Treasury secretary was asked about whe