Scott Bessent Gulps His Way Through Damage Control on Social Security

Ana Maria Rus

Photo: Magnus Lejhall/AFP/Getty Images Treasury secretary Scott Bessent has been forced to reassure Americans that the new “Trump accounts” created by the president’s megabill are not a way to eventually privatize Social Security, even if that’s exactly how he described them hours earlier. “It was ridiculous,” Bessent said of the uproar that ensued after he told the audience of a Breitbart event on Wednesday that the new investment accounts were a “backdoor for privatizing Social Security.” The