President Trump’s Treasury Secretary, Scott Bessent, didn’t just hold his own on CNN’s *State of the Union* — he took Dana Bash and the Left’s tired talking points to the woodshed. What unfolded on July 6 was a masterclass in dismantling liberal spin and defending a bill that puts working Americans first.

The “Big, Beautiful Bill” (BBB), signed by President Trump on Independence Day, slashes taxes, boosts border security, and returns power to the American people. Naturally, that’s triggered Democrats and their media lapdogs, who claim the bill helps “the rich” and hurts the poor — despite its very clear benefits to middle- and working-class families.

Cue Dana Bash, citing a deeply biased “report” from the so-called Yale Budget Lab. According to her, the richest Americans would see income gains while the poorest would somehow lose out — a claim so detached from reality that Bessent had to laugh.

“Well, Dana,” Bessent fired back, “let’s have a look at the Yale Budget Lab. I was on their website this week. They’re all ex-Biden officials. So I think we can discount everything they say.”

Mic dropped. But Bessent wasn’t done.

He explained what the mainstream media refuses to acknowledge: the BBB is laser-focused on helping working Americans. “It’s just not right,” he said, “that what we have here is a middle class and working class bill — and the Left wants to pretend it’s not.”

He reminded viewers that similar doom-and-gloom forecasts were made before Trump’s 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act — and those same tax cuts led to real wage growth across the board.

“This is about making those tax cuts permanent,” Bessent said, “and ensuring Americans keep more of what they earn — especially from overtime and tips. That’s real money in real people’s pockets.”

When Bash tried to pivot, claiming the BBB would “cut benefits,” Bessent shut it down immediately.

“No,” he said flatly. “There are no changes in benefits. There’s a change in requirements to get the benefits.” And here’s the key: “We’re bringing back working-class jobs. By securing the border, we’ve already seen wages rise. When people have jobs with good healthcare, they don’t need government handouts.”

Exactly — the Trump agenda is about lifting people up, not locking them into government dependency.

Bash, clearly rattled, tried again — this time to paint work requirements for Medicaid as cruel or controversial. Bessent, with surgical precision, dismantled that too: “Work requirements were popular under Clinton. They were popular under Obama. And even today, they poll well with the *median* Democratic voter — just not the far-Left fringe.”

The real issue? Democrats blew out the deficit during COVID and now don’t want to clean up their mess. Meanwhile, President Trump and his team are doing the hard work — rebuilding the economy, securing the border, and restoring common sense.

And if liberal elites don’t like it? Tough.

The Big, Beautiful Bill is now law. Working Americans win. The Biden-era bureaucracy loses. And CNN got a front-row seat to its own dismantling.