Treasury Opens The G20 To Nearly 300 Journalists After Selecting Which Treasury Reporters May Attend

ASHEVILLE, N.C.—The Treasury Department welcomed nearly 300 journalists to this week’s Group of 20 finance meeting after denying credentials to specific reporters from The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg News, preserving broad press access by narrowing the part that asks Treasury questions every day.

The excluded group includes a Times correspondent who has covered the department and international finance meetings since 2017. Treasury approved a different Times journalist based in Berlin. Bloomberg said numerous members of its staff, including reporters in Europe and Asia, were also rejected, demonstrating that the selection process could reach well beyond the inconvenient people already standing in Washington.

Secretary Scott Bessent said the denials had nothing to do with point of view. The department offered no other reason. Its public credential notice had invited news organizations to apply, while reserving approval and security screening to Treasury, a process that has now delivered maximum reassurance with minimum explanatory paperwork.

The gathering brings finance ministers and central bankers together to discuss trade, debt, inflation, Iran sanctions and global growth. It is hosted by the United States during its G20 presidency, which will culminate in December with a leaders’ summit at President Donald Trump’s Doral golf resort. Government access and private hospitality have therefore been arranged under one coherent portfolio.

The denied outlets will continue reporting on the meeting from outside it. Inside, hundreds of credentialed journalists will cover the global economy with the added efficiency of knowing that accreditation is both plentiful and individually revocable.