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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent confronted ABC News anchor George Stephanopoulos on Sunday for calling Republicans "terrorists" during the 1995 government shutdown .

Stephanopoulos asked Bessent on Sunday's "This Week" about the Trump administration's plan to end the ongoing government shutdown. Bessent reminded Stephanopoulos about his own experience handling a government shutdown when he served as an advisor to former President Bill Clinton .

"The best way to do it — and look, you were involved in a lot of these in the ’90s," Bessent said. "And, you know, you basically called the Republicans terrorists and, you know, you said that it is not the responsible party that keeps the government closed. And so, what we need i

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