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One of the most despicable members of Congress absolutely face-planted in an embarrassing fashion while trying to interrogate Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent during a hearing.
Bessent was invited to testify today before the House Financial Services Committee regarding the state of the international finance system. The hearing comes as Bessent and U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer are set to meet with a high-level Chinese delegation this weekend in Geneva, Switzerland, in the first major talks between the two countries since President Trump rightfully imposed stiff tariffs on Chinese imports.
But Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) had no interest in such a critical event. Instead, Mad Maxine sought to embarrass Bessent over the work DOGE is doing to save Americans billions of taxpayer dollars.
Waters’s ire was focused on Bessent allowing DOGE workers, who are characterized as government employees, to access the Treasury Department’s payment system and data. As The Gateway Pundit has reported, multiple judges had tried to block DOGE workers from accessing the Treasury systems before another judge in March gave them the green light.
“Do you know the level type or nature of the clearances and the security training required for individuals to access the information held in Treasury, IRS, or CFPB?” Waters asked.
After Bessent replied that he did, Waters demanded to know whether all individuals given access to Treasury’s and CFPB’s computer bases received the proper clearances and security training before being granted access.
Bessent corrected Waters by pointing out a key detail she omitted: the individuals were given read-only access, meaning they could not tamper with any of the documents.
A triggered Waters then interrupted Bessent and attempted to scold him.
“Please, you can’t filibuster here; this is not the filibuster playground,” she snapped. “You let these strangers into our Treasury with access to all of the data, all of the personnel information…You just opened the door!” Why did you do that?”
While going on her rampage, Waters made a damning mistake: the people going into the Treasury were not strangers at all; they were employees. Bessent was more than happy to remind her of this fact.
“No ma’am. They were Treasury employees,” he replied while smiling.
How humiliating for Waters.
WATCH:
MUST WATCH: @SecScottBessent shuts down Fake News Hoaxes peddled by @RepMaxineWaters:
“You let these strangers into our Treasury with access to all of the data…”
“No, ma’am. They were Treasury employees.” pic.twitter.com/CS0YhHDNOW
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) May 7, 2025
Waters could not believe what she heard and tried again to trip up Bessent by asking about 25-year-old Marko Elez, a software engineer who worked for Elon Musk’s DOGE before resigning over allegedly racist social media posts. He was later put back on the U.S. payroll.
“Are you saying today, in front of this committee, that all of them were Treasury employees…That the 25-year-old who’s being identified (and) worked for Elon Musk was allowed into the Treasury. Was that person there?” she demanded.
“He was an employee as was Tom Krause, the senior person on the DOGE team. There were only two people.” he replied before Waters rudely interrupted him.
“There were DOGE employees also!” she bellowed. “Were you aware that there were DOGE employees coming into our Treasury getting all of our personal information?”
Bessent closed the back-and-forth by pointing out error Waters made the same silly error as she did seconds ago.
“Ma’am, there is no such thing as a DOGE employee,” he said. “They were Treasury employees.”
Waters also forgot when she first met Bessent.
“This is the first time, we have met. Is that correct?” she asked.
“No ma’am, we actually we met one New Year’s Eve in the Bahamas,” he replied.
“Why don’t I remember that?” Waters wondered.
“You weren’t much better at the electric slide than I was,” Bessent quipped.
Maxine Waters is so cooked she doesn’t even remember she met the Treasury Secretary.
Maxine Waters: This is the first time we’ve met, is that correct?
Scott Bessent: Actually we met one New Year’s Eve in the Bahamas. You weren’t much better at the electric slide than I was. pic.twitter.com/r6nf8IuqIm
— Steven Crowder (@scrowder) May 7, 2025
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