Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is back on Capitol Hill Wednesday for more testimony before the House. Today, it’s the Financial Services Committee, which includes Maxine Waters (D-CA).
The stated purpose of Wednesday’s hearing is “The Annual Testimony of the Secretary of the Treasury on the State of the International Financial System,” which sounds rather formal and serious in nature. It doesn’t seem that it would lend itself to the all-too-frequent displays of nastiness by congressional Democrats at anyone associated with the Trump administration, but that didn’t stop Waters from turning the opportunity for a cordial exchange with Bessent into one that was decidedly mean-spirited on her part, in addition to being rather obtuse.
Waters begins her questioning of Bessent by asserting that they’ve never met before. But then he kindly reminds her of a New…
