Elizabeth Warren has been on the warpath against Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent since the day he was nominated.
Bessent has been answering her letters one by one – until Saturday, when he answered all of them at once.
His latest response to Warren contained a handwritten note at the bottom that nobody expected.
Warren Sent Bessent 100 Letters Attacking Him Over the 10-Year Treasury Yield
The harassment started before Scott Bessent was even sworn in.
Before his January 2025 confirmation hearing, Warren sent the incoming Treasury Secretary a 31-page letter with more than 180 questions – covering everything from his business background to his views on banking deregulation.
He got confirmed anyway, and she kept writing.
She demanded explanations for currency operations, bond buybacks, and foreign exchange moves – anything she could package as a Senate Banking Committee grievance.
Her October 7 letter focused on the 10-year Treasury yield, which hit 5.34% on September 30 – the highest level since 2002.
Warren accused Bessent of causing the surge himself, called it "self-inflicted," and set a deadline of October 21 for his response.
He answered four days later, on the Saturday before Indigenous Peoples Day.
Bessent Used Pocahontas Against Warren on Indigenous Peoples Day
Bessent opened by accusing Warren of continuing her "letter-writing crusade" instead of taking his earlier advice and studying introductory economics.
Warren has zero credibility on borrowing costs, and he documented it.
While she lectures the Trump administration about high yields now, she spent the Biden years cheerleading for the spending spree that produced 40-year-high inflation.
"You were a cheerleader for the Biden Administration's reckless spending," Bessent wrote – noting she blamed the Federal Reserve for consequences that came directly from her own votes.
Warren's October letter also blamed Fed rate hikes for spiking yields – the same Fed she attacked during Biden's inflation crisis for not raising rates fast enough.
She blamed the Fed both ways.
He reminded her that she voted for a $5 trillion tax hike on working Americans while the Trump Working Families Tax Cuts are delivering real economic relief.
Bessent closed with an educational offer: a "Foreign Exchange for Dummies tutorial" – and promised a "Fixed Income for Dummies" supplement if she passed with a Yale-level grade, not what he called the Harvard curve. Warren taught law at Harvard; he taught economic history at Yale.
At the bottom of the letter, he added one line by hand.
"Happy Indigenous People's Day in advance to you and your family."
This is the same Elizabeth Warren who listed herself as an American Indian minority on professional documents at the University of Pennsylvania and later at Harvard Law School, built an academic career on that identity, took a DNA test in 2018 that showed she was between 1/64th and 1/1,024th Native American – and still refused to apologize until tribal leaders forced her hand.
The Cherokee Nation condemned her DNA stunt, calling it "inappropriate and wrong" and accusing Warren of "undermining tribal interests with her continued claims of tribal heritage."
She eventually apologized, but the Pocahontas nickname followed her into every room she entered – and Bessent, writing two days before Indigenous Peoples Day, made sure it follows her into this one.
What This Pattern Tells You About Both of Them
Bessent has done this before.
In October 2025, he publicly called Warren and Senator Amy Klobuchar "failures" after they tried to interfere with conservative economic policy in Latin America, and told them to stop "writing incoherent letters to myself and others." He wasn't rattled by Warren then, and he isn't now.
Warren built her political career on credentials she couldn't back up and letter-writing campaigns that accomplish nothing except press releases for her office.
Massachusetts families are still waiting to find out what 100 letters to the Treasury Secretary did for their mortgages or grocery bills.
She has been sending Scott Bessent deadlines for 21 months. In return, she has received corrections on introductory economics, offers of Dummies-series textbooks, and – today – a handwritten Happy Indigenous Peoples Day.
This is what it looks like when a serious person stops pretending the letters deserve a serious response.
Bessent isn't scared of her committees or her October 21 cutoff – he's running the U.S. Treasury while Warren drafts letter 101.
Sources:
- Edward Lawrence and Brie Stimson, "Bessent mocks Sen Warren, wishes her 'Happy Indigenous Peoples' Day' in response to letter," Fox Business, October 10, 2026.
- "Bessent to Warren and Klobuchar: Stop 'Writing Incoherent Letters to Myself and Others,'" Legal Insurrection, October 31, 2025.
- "Elizabeth Warren DNA Test Backfires," The Washington Times, October 16, 2018.
- "Pocahontas No More," The American Spectator, October 2018.