Scott Bessent is both heartless or the USA’ most dedicated treasury secretary to this point.
As Los Angeles residents and on-the-ground reporters are being pelted with rubber bullets and maced in response to an organized protest towards ICE raids, Bessent’s largest qualm appears to be over the destruction of some Waymo self-driving automobiles.
“The cost of hardware alone on these autonomous vehicles is estimated to be ~$97,000,” he wrote on X Monday. “Multiple have been set ablaze. All to the jeers of masked men waving foreign flags.”
Certainly, Bessent didn’t intend to sound like he values automobiles greater than people, proper? It’s arduous to inform today.
In spite of everything, it’s Bessent’s personal boss, President Donald Trump, who ordered the Nationwide Guard to infiltrate Los Angeles, the place protesters had been exercising their proper to dissent from the Trump administration. He’s has even flirted with the concept of sending 500 Marines to Los Angeles.
That is the primary time {that a} president has federalized the Nationwide Guard with out consent of a governor since 1965, when President Lyndon B. Johnson deployed members to Alabama to shield protesters at a civil rights march.
Whereas the Nationwide Guard can’t perform regulation enforcement in Los Angeles with out Trump enacting martial regulation, he hasn’t dominated it out. Although declaring martial regulation would require approval from Congress, when has that stopped Trump earlier than?
