{"id":61433,"date":"2025-10-27T13:27:03","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T17:27:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=61433"},"modified":"2025-10-27T13:27:03","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T17:27:03","slug":"rebuking-the-lies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=61433","title":{"rendered":"Rebuking The Lies"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Sunday, The Gateway Pundit<\/a> posted an article about an interview of Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on ABC’s This Week<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The article contains text of some of the interview:<\/p>\n

Martha Raddatz<\/span>:<\/strong>
And today is day 26. I know you have been over there, but there has been a government shutdown here. People are suffering. Federal employees are starting to go to food banks. Any light at the end of the tunnel on that? Should the President be meeting with Democrats again?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Scott Bessent<\/span>:<\/strong>
What good does it do, Martha? They\u2019ve dug in. The American people are hostage to Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries\u2019 poll numbers. Because what\u2019s changed between now and the last time there was a clean continuing resolution is Chuck Schumer has tanked in the polls. Both of the two guys from Brooklyn, as I call them, are worried about being primaried from the left.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The article notes:<\/p>\n

Bessent went on to remind viewers that Republicans have voted 11 times to reopen the government, while Democrats, led by Schumer and Jeffries, continue to hold the nation hostage for political gain.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The transcript continues:<\/p>\n

Because, Martha, what I can tell you is\u2014we managed to find the money in the middle of October to pay our brave service members, and I think we\u2019ll be able to do it on November 1st. But we\u2019re going to be out of money on November 15th, and for our military not to get paid is a disgrace.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The other thing that\u2019s happening is this is starting to eat into the economy\u2014starting to slow the economy\u2014and we\u2019re also starting to see there\u2019s a problem with air traffic control. So it\u2019s beginning to slow down our nation\u2019s travel.<\/strong><\/p>\n

…Martha Raddatz<\/span>:<\/strong>
But Secretary Bessent, I should add that the President\u2019s party\u2014your party\u2014controls the White House and both chambers of Congress. You don\u2019t think you bear any responsibility for this?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Scott Bessent<\/span>:<\/strong>
Martha, what can we do? What can we do for this desperate act? We can call on them to change their minds. Because I can tell you\u2014the $1.5 trillion in spending that they\u2019re calling for\u2014that\u2019s not on the table.<\/strong><\/p>\n

We inherited a mess. We inherited the worst budget deficit-to-GDP ratio when we weren\u2019t in a recession and we weren\u2019t at war. It was 6.4%, 6.5%. We\u2019ve managed to bring that down to 5.9%, and we\u2019re not going to let them be irresponsible with the budget again.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I wonder if Scott Bessent will be invited on the show again! He may be punished for telling the truth!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Sunday, The Gateway Pundit posted an article about an interview of Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on ABC’s This Week. The article contains text of some of the interview: Martha Raddatz:And today is day 26. I know you have been … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[14128,6388,4135,11716,17681],"class_list":["post-61433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-abc-this-week-sunday","tag-government-shutdown","tag-martha-raddatz","tag-the-gateway-pundit","tag-treasury-secretary-scott-bessent"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61433"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61434,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61433\/revisions\/61434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}