The U.S. Treasury Department is preventing certain journalists from covering a finance meeting among the world’s most powerful countries, the latest example of how President Donald Trump’s administration has restricted media access.
Individual reporters from The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg News were not granted credentials to the Group of 20 finance ministers’ meeting in Asheville, North Carolina, the Times reported.
The Treasury has not explained the decision. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told The Associated Press in an interview Sunday that “it has nothing to do with point of view.”
I think this is par for the course with their behavior in other areas like research policy. They’re setting a norm where they get to veto anyone they dislike from whatever setting/project they want. They’d like to be able to fire anyone they don’t like from their job whether government or private, but it’s only feasible for certain things right now.