One of the despicable members of Congress completely face-planted in an embarrassing trend whereas attempting to interrogate Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent throughout a listening to.
Bessent was invited to testify immediately earlier than the Home Monetary Providers Committee regarding the state of the worldwide finance system. The hearing comes as Bessent and U.S. Commerce Consultant Jamieson Greer are set to fulfill with a high-level Chinese language delegation this weekend in Geneva, Switzerland, within the first main talks between the 2 nations since President Trump rightfully imposed stiff tariffs on Chinese language imports.
However Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) had no real interest in such a vital occasion. As an alternative, Mad Maxine sought to embarrass Bessent over the work DOGE is doing to save lots of Individuals billions of taxpayer {dollars}.
Waters’s ire was centered on Bessent permitting DOGE employees, who’re characterised as authorities staff, to entry the Treasury Division’s cost system and information. As The Gateway Pundit has reported, a number of judges had tried to block DOGE employees from accessing the Treasury programs earlier than one other choose in March gave them the inexperienced gentle.
“Are you aware the extent kind or nature of the clearances and the safety coaching required for people to entry the knowledge held in Treasury, IRS, or CFPB?” Waters requested.
After Bessent replied that he did, Waters demanded to know whether or not all people given entry to Treasury’s and CFPB’s laptop bases obtained the correct clearances and safety coaching earlier than being granted entry.
Bessent corrected Waters by stating a key element she omitted: the people got read-only entry, which means they might not tamper with any of the paperwork.
A triggered Waters then interrupted Bessent and tried to scold him.
“Please, you possibly can’t filibuster right here; this isn’t the filibuster playground,” she snapped. “You let these strangers into our Treasury with entry to all the information, all the personnel info…You simply opened the door!” Why did you do this?”
Whereas happening her rampage, Waters made a damning mistake: the folks going into the Treasury weren’t strangers in any respect; they had been staff. Bessent was more than pleased to remind her of this truth.
“No ma’am. They had been Treasury staff,” he replied whereas smiling.
How humiliating for Waters.
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MUST WATCH: @SecScottBessent shuts down Faux Information Hoaxes peddled by @RepMaxineWaters:
“You let these strangers into our Treasury with entry to all the information…”
“No, ma’am. They had been Treasury staff.” pic.twitter.com/CS0YhHDNOW
— Speedy Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) May 7, 2025
Waters couldn’t consider what she heard and tried once more to journey up Bessent by asking about 25-year-old Marko Elez, a software program engineer who labored for Elon Musk’s DOGE earlier than resigning over allegedly racist social media posts. He was later put back on the U.S. payroll.
“Are you saying immediately, in entrance of this committee, that every one of them had been Treasury staff…That the 25-year-old who’s being recognized (and) labored for Elon Musk was allowed into the Treasury. Was that individual there?” she demanded.
“He was an worker as was Tom Krause, the senior individual on the DOGE workforce. There have been solely two folks.” he replied earlier than Waters rudely interrupted him.
“There have been DOGE staff additionally!” she bellowed. “Have been you conscious that there have been DOGE staff coming into our Treasury getting all of our private info?”
Bessent closed the back-and-forth by stating error Waters made the identical foolish error as she did seconds in the past.
“Ma’am, there is no such thing as a such factor as a DOGE worker,” he stated. “They had been Treasury staff.”
Waters additionally forgot when she first met Bessent.
“That is the primary time, we’ve met. Is that right?” she requested.
“No ma’am, we truly we met one New Yr’s Eve within the Bahamas,” he replied.
“Why don’t I do not forget that?” Waters questioned.
“You weren’t significantly better on the electrical slide than I used to be,” Bessent quipped.
Maxine Waters is so cooked she doesn’t even keep in mind she met the Treasury Secretary.
Maxine Waters: That is the primary time we’ve met, is that right?
Scott Bessent: Really we met one New Yr’s Eve within the Bahamas. You weren’t significantly better on the electrical slide than I used to be. pic.twitter.com/r6nf8IuqIm
— Steven Crowder (@scrowder) May 7, 2025
