Scott Bessent jokingly invoked the fatal duel between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr when asked about his recent dustup with Bill Pulte – whom the Treasury secretary reportedly threatened to “punch” in his “f–king face”.

When asked on Tuesday by CNBC whether he is butting heads with Pulte, the director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, Bessent gave a sly nod to his predecessor Hamilton, who was the nation’s first secretary of the Treasury.

“Treasury secretaries dating back to Alexander Hamilton have a history of dueling,” Bessent quipped. 4

Hamilton — who also famously founded the New York Post in 1801 — died in 1804 after his duel with Burr, the third vice president of the US.

Bessent, 63, threatened to beat up Pulte, 37, earlier this month for bad-mouthing him to Presid

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