Overview
- Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent used his official X account to demand a public apology from former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers or call for his dismissal at affiliated institutions.
- Summers told ABC News that Trump’s ‘One Big, Beautiful Bill’ could cause 100,000 preventable deaths over ten years—equivalent to roughly 2,000 days of fatalities like the recent Texas flood.
- Economists, civil rights advocates and former officials condemned Bessent’s demand as an authoritarian misuse of power to silence academic criticism.
- A Yale and University of Pennsylvania study cited by Summers estimates about 51,000 annual deaths from cuts to Medicaid, Affordable Care Act coverage and nursing-home staffing regulations.
- Texas authorities led by Gov. Greg Abbott continue search-and-rescue operations after flash floods killed at least 80 people, including 28 children, with multiple individuals still missing.