It’s a stressful time to be Scott Bessent , the Treasury secretary tasked with bending the Federal Reserve to President Donald Trump’s will while doing his best to ensure his boss’s tariff war does not tank the U.S. economy. Apparently the stress of this workload is affecting how he works with fellow administration members, like Bill Pulte , Trump’s Housing Finance chief, whom Bessent threatened to punch in his “fucking face,” per Politico .

It all went down last Wednesday at the inaugural dinner at the Executive Branch, a private social club for ultrarich MAGA residents of Washington, D.C. According to the report, Bessent had heard from several staffers at the Federal Housing Finance Agency that Pulte was saying bad things about him to Trump.

“Why the fuck are you talking to t

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