Bessent says he told Pulte ‘I was going to kick his a–‘
Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) asked him if past reporting that he said he would punch Pulte in the face was correct. “No sir, I actually said I was going to kick his a–,” the Treasury chief replied with a smile. Thank you.” Bessent added that “many teams have fights in the locker room and then go out and win for the team on the table.” The North Carolina Republican said he was “curious” about the incident before noting that he will not support Pulte to replace Tulsi Gabbard, who stepped down from the role last month.
- ▪Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) asked him if past reporting that he said he would punch Pulte in the face was correct.
- ▪“No sir, I actually said I was going to kick his a–,” the Treasury chief replied with a smile.
- ▪Thank you.” Bessent added that “many teams have fights in the locker room and then go out and win for the team on the table.” The North Carolina Republican said he was “curious” about the incident before noting that he will not support Pult
3 outlets in our directory ran this story, first to last over 3 hours. Coverage spans 2 points on the political spectrum — 1 lean left, 1 right.
- ▪ Bessent testifies he told Pulte he was "going to kick his a**," not punch him — CBS News — Top
- ▪ Bessent clarifies threat against Bill Pulte: He said he was going to ‘kick his a**’ — Washington Examiner
The Hill files mainly under politics. We currently carry 1,451 of its stories.
Story provenance
Source · retrieval · rights · ranking — open for full record
inspect →
Story provenance
Attribution is not the same as permission. This drawer separates discovery metadata, excerpts, WeSearch-generated summaries, reuse status, and whether the publisher receives the visit. Nothing here claims a legal grant the publisher has not made.
Record
| Original publisher | The Hill |
| Canonical URL | https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5908211-scott-bessent-bill-pulte-teasury-fhfa-beef/ |
| Publication time | Wed, 03 Jun 2026 18:57:59 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-06-03T19:26:58.109Z |
| Last seen | 2026-06-03T19:27:01.086Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | yT-t0_1Aql0l · 3 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
Opening excerpt (first ~120 words) tap to expand
Administration Bessent says he told Pulte ‘I was going to kick his a–‘ Comments: by Ryan Mancini - 06/03/26 2:57 PM ET Comments: Link copied by Ryan Mancini - 06/03/26 2:57 PM ET Comments: Link copied NOW PLAYING Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Wednesday said he once told Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) Director Bill Pulte, who President Trump recently tapped to serve as acting head of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), that he “was going to kick his a–.” Bessent made the remark while testifying before the Senate Finance Committee on the president’s fiscal 2027 budget request for the department. Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) asked him if past reporting that he said he would punch Pulte in the face was correct.
…
Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at The Hill.