By David Lawder and Andrea Shalal

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The International Monetary Fund could sell a golf course it owns in Maryland, U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Wednesday, repeating his call for the global lender to focus on its core mission of helping countries in trouble.

“They can sell the golf course,” Bessent told reporters, when asked about concrete changes he expected to see at the IMF now that his former chief of staff, Dan Katz, had moved to the global lender as its No. 2 official.

“We’re going to refocus,” said Bessent, who spoke during the annual meetings of the IMF and World Bank in Washington. “They’re going to go back to their core mission. And their core mission is of providing liquidity, providing backstops, and being useful as an intervention when … c

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