The U.S. Treasury Department denied credentials to individual reporters from The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and Bloomberg News for the G20 finance ministers' meeting held in Asheville, North Carolina. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent stated the denials were unrelated to viewpoint, while The New York Times described them as an attempt to evade scrutiny. Other reporters from the same outlets, including New York Times Berlin bureau chief Jim Tankersley, received credentials.