Bessent: Washington Post Report On Trump $250 Bill Was "Terribly Written, Terribly Edited”
CNN’s Kaitlan Collins asked Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent at today’s White House briefing about a new report from the Washington Post about the new $ 250 bill with Trump’s face on it: “Trump Appointees Push $ 250 Banknote With His Portrait:
KAITLAN COLLINS, CNN: Thank you, Mr. Secretary. I have two questions for you, but just to follow what you said about the- SCOTT BESSENT, TREASURY SECRETARY: You didn’t call me doctor, so I only got one. KAITLAN COLLINS: You said that it’s up to Congress, the president’s face is on a $ 250 bill, but it is actually The Washington Post that’s reporting two political appointees from the Treasury Department who have asked agencies to be ready to do that. Do you think politically it’s a good idea to put his face on a $ 250 bill when people are struggling to afford gas? SCOTT BESSENT: You know, I don’t really understand this Washington Post article. Who here is from the Post? KAITLAN COLLINS: Yes. SCOTT BESSENT: Terribly written, terribly edited, because basically what it says is that Treasury is following the law and that we’ve created the bill, and that it’s up to Congress. But that we follow the bill and it’s up to- I didn’t really understand what the story was. KAITLAN COLLINS: But anyway, that your political appointees- SCOTT BESSENT: Yes, of course, but we prepare for everything if it gets passed. Just like we were ready six months in advance for the One Big Beautiful Bill for tax guidance. So we have to prepare in advance. You can’t draw something up the day before. KAITLAN COLLINS: Politically, do you think it’s a good idea, though, when people are struggling to afford gas and groceries? SCOTT BESSENT: Look, I think it has – I think that it’s bifurcated. Do you think we should have a 250th anniversary celebration? KAITLAN COLLINS: Well, that’s happening anyway, but- SCOTT BESSENT: No, no, no, no, no. But, Kaitlan, it’s not happening anyway. It’s happening because it’s being funded by private citizens, by the federal government, by state governments, by municipal governments to celebrate our country. And I don’t think that there’s anything untoward about having the president of the United States, the person who was president of the United States, on the 250th anniversary bill.
