The Trump administration plans to retain only about 290 of the more than 10,000 employees worldwide at the U.S. Agency for ...

A supporter, Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., said Bessent “brings a wealth of private sector experience in the economy and markets to his new role, as well as a concern for the needs ...

Bessent is only the 12th South Carolinian to live in the White House or land on that “Top 5” list, a group led by President Andrew Jackson and Vice President John C. Calhoun in the 1800s.

Bessent, an investor and hedge fund manager, was a partner at Soros Fund Management and the founder of Key Square Group, a global macro investment firm. He's married to John Freeman, a former New York ...

The U.S. Senate confirmed billionaire investor Scott Bessent, of South Carolina, on Monday to serve as President Donald Trump ...

Scott Bessent will lead President Donald Trump's financial agenda as treasury secretary. Bessent, a billionaire hedge fund manager, was confirmed in a 68 to 29 U.S. Senate vote on Monday and sworn ...

“Scott Bessent brings a wealth of private-sector experience in the economy and markets to his new role, as well as a concern for the needs of working Americans,” Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S ...

Scott Bessent was sworn in as Treasury Secretary on Tuesday, taking the helm of one of the government agencies most critical to President Donald Trump’s sweeping economic agenda. Bessent ...