Treasury Department Restricts Media Access for G20 Meeting, Drawing Criticism
The U.S. Treasury Department has denied credentials to several journalists from prominent news organizations, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and Bloomberg News, preventing them from covering the Group of 20 (G20) finance ministers' meeting in Asheville, North Carolina. This decision has been met with strong condemnation from the affected news outlets, with The New York Times calling it "not just another disturbing effort by the administration to undermine independent journalism, but a blatant attempt to evade public scrutiny." Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent stated that the decision was not related to the journalists' points of view. The denied access includes Alan Rappeport of The New York Times, who has covered such meetings since 2017, though another Times reporter, Jim Tankersley, was granted access. Bloomberg News reported that numerous journalists, including those based in Europe and Asia, had their accreditation requests rejected, asserting that this action "undermines media... 
