{"id":61542,"date":"2025-05-29T09:43:02","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T09:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=61542"},"modified":"2025-05-29T09:43:03","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T09:43:03","slug":"watch-scott-bes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=61542","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: Scott Bes."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"940\" height=\"788\" src=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-785.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-61543\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-785.png 940w, https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-785-300x251.png 300w, https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-785-768x644.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Rep. Maxine Waters clashed during a hearing over the Department of Government Efficiency\u2019s (DOGE) access to Treasury data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Waters accused DOGE, led by Elon Musk, of having \u201cunfettered\u201d access to sensitive systems. Bessent denied this, saying DOGE had only read-only access and reminded Waters, \u201cThere\u2019s no such thing as a DOGE employee.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a tense exchange, Waters interrupted Bessent and accused him of giving outsiders full access to Treasury data. She also appeared to forget a past meeting with Bessent in the Bahamas, which he gently reminded her of.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bessent is currently the most popular Trump Cabinet member with a +14 net approval rating. Trump\u2019s own approval has also risen, especially among young voters and Black voters, despite recent trade-related backlash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Rep. Maxine Waters clashed during a hearing over the Department of Government Efficiency\u2019s (DOGE) access to Treasury data. Waters accused DOGE, led&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61542"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61542"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61544,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61542\/revisions\/61544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}