Now, Scott Bessent, President-elect Donald Trump’s choice for treasury secretary, is using all the budget high jinks at his disposal to produce a pseudoscientific plan that’s rosier ...

Senate Democrats are circulating a memo claiming that President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for Treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, improperly claimed nearly $2 million in tax losses and owes ...

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 ...

Scott Bessent, President Donald Trump’s pick for Treasury secretary, won bipartisan support Tuesday as his nomination cleared a Senate committee. The Senate Finance Committee voted 16-11 to ...

Scott Bessent, the Treasury Secretary, has been tapped by President Trump to be acting director of the Consumer Financial ...

Hedge fund manager Scott Bessent — who has vowed to crack down on off-the-rails federal spending and help avert a “crushing $4 trillion tax hike” on Americans by year’s end — was ...

But the agency has since been targeted by trade groups who unsuccessfully argued that the CFPB's funding violated the U.S.

While both equity and treasury investors have long loved the prospect of the president-elect putting Bessent in charge of financing our $36 trillion national debt, Bessent exceeded expectations at ...