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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent reportedly left a restaurant in Washington, D.C., after a woman heckled him during his meal this week. A NOTUS reporter, Daniella Diaz, was dining in Adams Morgan on Wednesday when she noticed the woman verbally attacking Bessent, according to reports and video posted online.
“While dining with a guest at the Adams Morgan restaurant, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent was heckled in front of dozens of diners by a woman who bashed the administration’s sanctions,” a report noted the next morning.
“Restaurant patron Olivia DiNucci repeatedly struck her glass to garner attention and mockingly toast Bessent, who called her ignorant and asked staff why they weren’t stopping the scene,” NOTUS added, noting that Bessent left the establishment after complaining to the management.
“He’s eating in this nice restaurant in Washington, D.C., when sanctions cause starvation across the world,” DiNucci claimed without providing context or evidence to support her statement. “We should be confronting them with our voice as much as we can because people across the world are affected by this.”
A person close to Bessent said the Trump official left “precisely because the restaurant owner refused to respect other diners and remove the heckler in question. Also, the food sucked.”
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Meanwhile, California Democratic Sen. Adam Schiff expressed frustration over the Democratic Party’s lack of a “coordinated response” to President Trump and wants his party to do more to combat the president.
“I think the lack of a coordinated response, and frankly, it took the focus off of where it should have been, which is on the fact that the president spoke and had nothing to say about what he would do to bring down costs for American families that were watching that lengthy address, sitting at the kitchen table hoping he would offer something to help them afford a new home or pay their rent, afford health care, or afford child care,” Schiff said during an interview with ABC’s Jonathan Karl.
The lawmaker addressed the critiques by Pennsylvania Democratic Sen. John Fetterman, who called the Democrats’ situation “a sad cavalcade of self-owns and unhinged petulance.”
“They’re destroying the economy, and they’re making it harder and harder for Americans to afford things. That’s where we need to keep the focus, that’s why we lost the last election, because we weren’t laser-focused on the high cost of living and what they’re doing now is just making it so much worse,” Schiff claimed — falsely, according to the most recent economic data.
Karl also asked Schiff how the Democratic Party should respond to the president. The ABC News host specifically referenced Democratic strategist James Carville, who has suggested that the party should “play dead” and consider a strategic political retreat.
“We need to be advancing policies and making the arguments about what we have to offer, not simply standing back and letting them collapse under their own corrupt weight. To me, that’s not enough. We need to effectively use litigation as we are. We need to effectively use communication to talk to new people in new ways, as we are,” he added.
A new national poll shows that most Democrats are dissatisfied with how their party’s lawmakers are performing in Congress.
According to a Quinnipiac University survey released Wednesday, 53% of Democratic respondents disapproved of congressional Democrats’ job performance, while only 41% expressed approval.
Among all voters surveyed, just 21% approved of how Democrats in Congress are handling their roles, with 70% voicing disapproval.
The 21% approval rating matches the figure from Quinnipiac’s national poll, tying “an all-time low since Quinnipiac University first asked this question of registered voters in March 2009.”
