Bessent demands apology from Summers over ‘big, beautiful bill’ criticism
TEXAS, JUL 7 – Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent condemned Larry Summers for using the Texas floods' 80+ deaths to criticize GOP budget, calling it a politicization of human tragedy.
- Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent called for an apology from former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers after Summers criticized the 'One Big, Beautiful Bill' in relation to Texas flooding deaths.
- Summers stated the bill could lead to '2,000 days of death like we've seen in Texas this weekend' and suggested it would harm more than 100,000 people, undermining the bill's economic strength.
- Bessent described Summers' comments as 'cheap' and 'callous,' urging others to support his demand for a public apology from Summers.
- The flash floods in Texas resulted in over 82 fatalities, including at least 28 children from Camp Mystic, highlighting the gravity of the tragedy amid political criticisms.
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In what some critics describe as an example of “cancel culture,” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent—a high profile official in the Trump administration—is calling for an apology or the firing of a private citizen: Larry Summers, a Democrat who, coincidentally, once held Bessent’s current position and later served as president of Harvard University.In remarks he made over the weekend, Summers likened the horrific Texas flooding fatalities—now over …
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In what some critics describe as an example of “cancel culture,” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent—a high profile official in the Trump administration—is calling for an apology or the firing of a private citizen: Larry Summers, a Democrat who, coincidentally, once held Bessent’s current position and ...
Bessent demands apology from Summers over ‘big, beautiful bill’ criticism
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent late Sunday fired back at Larry Summers for the former Treasury secretary’s criticism of President Trump’s massive tax and spending legislation. In a thread on social platform X, Bessent demanded an apology from Summers for comparing the deaths that some estimates predict will result from the health care cuts in the…
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