{"id":2564863,"date":"2026-02-05T18:08:02","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T23:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-elizabeth-warren-seethes-as-scott-bessent-turns-the-tables-and-reminds-her-she-was-front-and-center-in-affordability-crisis-4\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T18:12:01","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T23:12:01","slug":"watch-elizabeth-warren-seethes-as-scott-bessent-turns-the-tables-and-reminds-her-she-was-front-and-center-in-affordability-crisis-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-elizabeth-warren-seethes-as-scott-bessent-turns-the-tables-and-reminds-her-she-was-front-and-center-in-affordability-crisis-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Elizabeth Warren Seethes as Scott Bessent Turns the Tables and Reminds Her She Was &#8216;Front and Center&#8217; in Affordability Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">42<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwatch-elizabeth-warren-seethes-as-scott-bessent-turns-the-tables-and-reminds-her-she-was-front-and-center-in-affordability-crisis-4%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2564863&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>This piece blends satire and opinion to critique a recent Senate hearing. it opens with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/five-fibs-president-biden-cant-stop-telling\/\" title=\"Five Fibs ... Can\u2019t Stop Telling\">humorous note<\/a> about the mayfly\u2019s minute lifespan, then shifts to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent enduring questions from lawmakers, notably Senator Elizabeth Warren, about inflation and remarks attributed to President Trump.The author compliments Bessent\u2019s sharp, entertaining retorts as he pushbacks against what it frames as partisan grandstanding.A similar exchange with Representative Maxine Waters is described, with Waters allegedly left flustered as Bessent dismisses her line of questioning. The article argues that Warren misrepresents Trump\u2019s comments about the affordability crisis and contends the true blame lies with the Biden-Warren economy, a point the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-doubles-down-on-call-for-clean-debt-ceiling-after-gop-debt-bill-passes-house\/\" title=\"Biden Doubles Down on Call for Clean Debt Ceiling After GOP Debt Bill Passes House\">secretary reiterates<\/a>. A youtube video of the exchange is referenced, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senior-biden-campaign-official-not-happy-when-anchor-pushes-her-on-cognitive-function\/\" title=\"Senior Biden Campaign Official Upset Over Anchor&#039;s Question About &#039;Cognitive ...\">piece concludes<\/a> by decrying the hearings as tedious, partisan theater and calling for reforms such as abolishing or drastically reforming Congress. The text also includes multiple embedded scripts and advertisements, underscoring its chaotic, opinionated tone.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_0)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>The adult mayfly, an aquatic insect, often lives for less than 24 hours. That qualifies as the shortest lifespan in the animal kingdom.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, the mayfly&rsquo;s existence would seem the height of pointlessness if not for the phenomenon of the congressional hearing.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday before the Senate Banking Committee, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent endured his second consecutive day of mindless questioning from legislators, in this case led by Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, who tried &mdash; in her usual charming way &mdash; to pin responsibility for inflation on President Donald Trump&rsquo;s administration, only to have Bessent interrupt and remind her that she stood &ldquo;front and center&rdquo; during the runaway inflation that occurred under former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/leavitt-schools-liberal-media-trumps-successfully-cleaning-bidens-inflation-mess\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Joe Biden<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, if Bessent had to <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >waste time talking<\/a> to grandstanding Democrats, at least he made it entertaining again.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, the Treasury Secretary took a similar approach with Democratic Rep. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/watch-scott-bessent-perfect-response-maxine-waters-says-shut-hearing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Maxine Waters<\/a> of California. By the end of that exchange, Bessent had the flustered Waters begging the committee chair to &ldquo;shut him up.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p> <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> \t\t\tif ( getCookie( \"ff_subbed\" ) ) { \t\t\t\tdocument.getElementById(\"stnvideo\").remove() \t\t\t} else { \t\t\t\tdocument.addEventListener(\"DOMContentLoaded\", function() { \t\t\t\t\tfunction loadScript(src) { \t\t\t\t\t\tconst script=document.createElement(\"script\"); \t\t\t\t\t\tscript.src=src; \t\t\t\t\t\tscript.async=true; \t\t\t\t\t\tdocument.body.appendChild(script); \t\t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\t\tfunction findPreviousParagraph(selector, x) { \t\t\t\t\t\tconst targetElement=document.querySelector(selector); \t\t\t\t\t\tif (!targetElement) { \t\t\t\t\t\t\tconsole.warn(\"Target element not found.\"); \t\t\t\t\t\t\treturn null; \t\t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Get all <\/p>\n<p> elements in order as they appear in the document \t\t\t\t\t\tlet paragraphs=Array.from(document.querySelectorAll(\"p\"));  \t\t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Find the index of the last <\/p>\n<p> before the target element \t\t\t\t\t\tlet targetIndex=paragraphs.findIndex(p=> p.compareDocumentPosition(targetElement) & Node.DOCUMENT_POSITION_PRECEDING);  \t\t\t\t\t\tif (targetIndex===-1 || targetIndex <x) { \t\t\t\t\t\t\tconsole.warn(\"Not enough paragraphs before the target element.\"); \t\t\t\t\t\t\treturn null; \t\t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\treturn paragraphs[targetIndex - x]; \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Set up IntersectionObserver \t\t\t\t\tfunction observeElement(element) { \t\t\t\t\t\tif (!element) return;  \t\t\t\t\t\tconst observer=new IntersectionObserver( \t\t\t\t\t\t\t(entries)=> { \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tentries.forEach(entry=> { \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tif (entry.isIntersecting) { \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tconsole.log(\"Paragraph is now visible:\", entry.target.textContent.trim()); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tloadScript(\"https:\/\/embed.sendtonews.com\/player3\/embedcode.js?fk=s28Az7AY\"); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tobserver.disconnect(); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t}); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t}, \t\t\t\t\t\t\t{ threshold: 0.5 } \/\/ Adjust threshold as needed \t\t\t\t\t\t);  \t\t\t\t\t\tobserver.observe(element); \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Find the 1st paragraph before #stnvideo and observe it \t\t\t\t\tlet paragraphToObserve=findPreviousParagraph(\"#stnvideo\", 2); \t\t\t\t\tobserveElement(paragraphToObserve); \t\t\t\t}); \t\t\t} \t\t<\/script> <\/p>\n<p>Imagine having to suffer through Waters in the House one day and Warren in the Senate the next. Bessent deserves a vacation after this week.<\/p>\n<p>In any event, the Massachusetts senator opened the questioning by fixating on Democrats&rsquo; perennial, tiresome bugbear: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/pure-gold-watch-trumps-response-asked-office-jan-21-2029-wouldnt-terrible\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Trump<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Specifically, she referred to comments in which the president, she said, characterized the affordability crisis as a &ldquo;hoax,&rdquo; a &ldquo;scam,&rdquo; and a &ldquo;con job,&rdquo; and she asked if the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-elizabeth-warren-seethes-as-scott-bessent-turns-the-tables-and-reminds-her-she-was-front-and-center-in-affordability-crisis\/\" title=\"Watch: ... Seethes as Scott ... Turns the Tables and Reminds Her She Was &#039;Front and Center&#039; in Affordability Crisis\">economic numbers supported<\/a> that characterization.<\/p>\n<p>Here, of course, we have a classic Democrat tactic: misrepresenting Trump&rsquo;s words and then holding others accountable for them.<\/p>\n<p>Bessent refused to bite.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Senator,&rdquo; he replied, &ldquo;it may be a bit nuanced for you, but what President Trump is referring to is the media saying that the affordability crisis was generated by this administration, when it was you and President Biden who destroyed the buying power of the American people.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;So there is an affordability crisis,&rdquo; Bessent added, &ldquo;and you were front and center in it.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Warren grew agitated.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;So let me make sure that I understand,&rdquo; she said. &ldquo;Donald Trump is not saying that affordability &mdash; what&rsquo;s happening to families right now &mdash; is a hoax?&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Having already answered that question, Bessent decided to needle the senator once more.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;He is saying,&rdquo; the Treasury Secretary replied, &ldquo;that trying to lay the blame at this administration, rather than the Biden-Warren economy, is a hoax.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Readers may view the exchange in the YouTube video below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/F-VfV1MNriY?si=IDiEDA2PYMIMpHJc\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>To veteran observers of these asinine hearings, it goes without saying that Warren had no interest in Bessent&rsquo;s substantive remarks.<\/p>\n<p>After asking the Treasury Secretary about the affordability &ldquo;hoax,&rdquo; the senator then subjected him to a two-minute harangue on grocery prices. At no point did she ask Bessent for anything besides &ldquo;yes&rdquo; or &ldquo;no&rdquo; answers.<\/p>\n<p>If legislators insist on wasting everyone&rsquo;s time with their partisan inanities, then who can blame <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/watch-perfect-troll-vs-lamest-response-scott-bessent-nails-dem-heated-exchange-dem-gives-literally-lamest-response-possible\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bessent<\/a> for punching back?<\/p>\n<p>The time has come to get rid of these congressional hearings or, better yet, the Congress members themselves.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position: relative;\">\n<div class=\"ff-fancy-header-container\"> \t\t\t \t<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-submit-correction inner-content\">\n<div class=\"correction-form\">\n<form style=\"display: none;\">\n<div class=\"sc-name-field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* Name<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"name\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"sc--field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* <\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<label>* Message<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t<textarea name=\"message\" required><\/textarea> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"required-message\" style=\"display: none; padding-bottom: 15px;\">* All fields are required.<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"submit\" value=\"Submit\" onclick=\"event.preventDefault(); firefly_sc();\"> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-sc-confirm\" style=\"display: none;\">Success!<\/div>\n<\/p><\/form>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> \t\t<script> \t\t\tfunction firefly_sc() { \t\t\t\tif( typeof window.captchaPublicKey==typeof undefined ){ \t\t\t\t\tconsole.error('window.captchaPublicKey is not defined'); \t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\tgrecaptcha.execute( window.captchaPublicKey, { action: 'submit_correction' } ).then( function( token ) { \t\t\t\t\tvar opts={ \t\t\t\t\t\taction:    'firefly_sc_submit', \t\t\t\t\t\tname:      document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"name\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\t:     document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tmessage:   document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"message\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tpost_id:   firefly_post_id, \t\t\t\t\t\tcap_token: token \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\tvar inputs=[ 'name', '', 'message' ];  \t\t\t\t\tfor( var i=0; i <inputs.length; i++ ) if( ! 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The piece then follows Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent during high-profile, partisan exchanges on inflation. In the Senate, Senator Elizabeth Warren pressed him to assign blame to the Trump administration, but Bessent replied that the real story includes the inflation that happened under Biden, suggesting the questioning was more about theater than substance. A similar dynamic occurred a day earlier with Representative Maxine Waters, who left the secretary visibly flustered. The article describes Warren\u2019s focus on Trump\u2019s past remarks about the affordability crisis and argues that Bessent\u2019s replies framed the issue as one of policy consequences of the Biden-Warren economy, not a hoax. It notes that Warren\u2019s line of questioning prioritized partisan rhetoric over answers, and it ends with a blunt sense that if lawmakers insist on such theatrics, the hearings\u2014indeed Congress itself\u2014might be better off scrapped<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2564864,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Warren-vs-Bessent.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[65623,34813,5894,48678],"class_list":["post-2564863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-affordability-crisis","tag-elizabeth-warren","tag-politics","tag-scott-bessent"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Warren-vs-Bessent.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2564863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2564863"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2564863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2564867,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2564863\/revisions\/2564867"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2564864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2564863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2564863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2564863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}