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 bill to the fatalities that were reported after the catastrophic flooding in central Texas.
“Today, former Treasury Secretary @LHSummers...