Scott Bessent, President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for Department of Treasury secretary, will appear before the Senate on Thursday for his confirmation hearing. Bessent, who reportedly gave ...

Rep. Nydia Velazquez (D-NY) grilled Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Wednesday as he testified before the House Financial ...

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent testified on Capitol Hill Tuesday for the first time since his confirmation in January.

Scott Bessent, President-elect Donald Trump ... with the Senate Finance Committee scheduled to start his confirmation hearing at 10:30 a.m. Eastern time on Thursday. Trump’s decision in ...

The status quo of large U.S trade deficits cannot persist, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said. "Intentional policy choices by other countries have hollowed out America’s manufacturing sector ...

Washington: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has told US lawmakers that his department's ability to use special accounting ...

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent earlier this month. (Juan Ignacio Roncoroni/Shutterstock) The U.S. wants to help China pivot away from an economic model focused on exports instead of consumption ...

In January 2025, President Donald Trump’s nominee for Secretary of the Treasury, Scott Bessent, was officially confirmed by the Senate in a 68–29 vote. A longtime financial advisor and major ...

Send an email to Jacob. One of the most prominent defenders of the Trump agenda during the president’s second term has been Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent. A relative unknown on the ...

Watch Bessent’s remarks in our video player above. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer will meet with their counterparts in Geneva in the most-senior ...

In recent weeks, as President Donald Trump’s trade war has battered both stocks and business confidence, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has declared multiple times that the U.S. economy needs ...

Victoria Guida is an economics correspondent at POLITICO and author of Capital Letter, a reported column that probes policies shaping the American economy and is closely read by policymakers and ...