Republicans don’t want to talk about Donald Trump’s treasury secretary nominee Scott Bessent’s long professional work with Democratic megadonor billionaire George Soros.
Republican senators’ strategy for Thursday’s Senate Finance Committee hearing is instead to keep the conversation future-facing, admitting they’d rather trust Trump than look too closely into Bessent’s past.
“Somebody may explore that; I’m more interested in what we’re doing going forward,” finance committee member Sen. Bill Cassidy told NOTUS. “President Trump has all the confidence in the world in him, so that’s a pretty good endorsement.”