Scott Bessent, President-elect Donald Trump's choice to be Secretary of the Treasury, appears before the Senate Finance ...

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

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent will serve as the acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), the agency announced on Monday. "I look forward to working with the CFPB to ...

LGBTQ groups overall are pleased to have the first gay U.S. Treasury secretary. But that doesn't mean they had uniform reactions to the news of Scott Bessent's U.S. Senate confirmation to the position ...

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 ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - The U.S. Senate voted Monday to confirm hedge fund manager and South Carolina native Scott ... Bessent lives in Charleston with his husband John and his two children.

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 ...

The U.S. Senate confirmed Scott Bessent as Treasury secretary ... He is married to former prosecutor John Freeman, with whom he has two children, according to Axios. “In a certain geographic ...