Remarks from Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent at Joint Base Lindsey Graham Renaming Ceremony

As prepared for delivery. Secretary Hegseth and Senator Darline Graham. Colonel Shirley. Governor McMaster and the great men and women of our military. It is an honor to join you all in my home state as we pay tribute to one of its most devoted sons.The names we attach to our military installations reveal something of ourselves. They signal the type of service we honor. The kind of character we esteem. And perhaps above all, the sort of example we ask future generations to follow.Today, this base takes the name of a patriot who embodied each of those ideals in equal measure.Of course, Lindsey Graham believed that the first obligation of the federal government is to keep its people safe.He carried that conviction for more than three decades in uniform and in Washington.And to place his name upon a base dedicated to our defense is to join Lindsey’s memory to the cause that