In an interview revealed today Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said that he didn’t like the term ‘fake news’ before he entered government, but he’s changed his mind now and explains why:
One of the big reveals in this excerpt is that Bessent says the reporting by the New York Times the other day about the 50% job losses at the IRS is not true. Bessent says nobody is talking about that and the NY Times is just trying to create ‘tumult’ during tax filing season.