Politico's Rachael Bade reports that Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent threatened a colleage in the Trump Administration at a private dinner. "Why the fuck are you talking to the president about me? Fuck you," Bessent told Bill Pulte, a housing finance official. "I'm gonna punch you in your fucking face."

But amid the cocktail-hour din, Bessent lashed out at Pulte in an expletive-laden diatribe. The Treasury secretary had heard from several people that the Federal Housing Finance Agency director had been badmouthing him to Trump, a person close to him said. He wasn't about to engage in chit-chat as if nothing was amiss.

… It's either me or him," Bessent said to [dinner host] Malik. "You tell me who's getting the fuck out of here."

"Or," he added, "we could go outside."

"To do what?" ask

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