Bessent warned that China’s attempt to “overshadow” Trump’s Gaza peace deal with its export control announcement was a “bad idea” and a “miscalculation.”

US President Trump is expected to meet Chinese leader Xi Jinping in South Korea amid escalating trade tensions. The US plans to impose a 100% tariff on Chinese imports starting November 1, following China's new restrictions on rare earth exports.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Thursday praised President Donald Trump as "solution-driven" and said the president was right to call out the United Nations' shortcomings on immigration, energy and the economy.

The U.S. government shutdown has started to dig into the real economy, Scott Bessent said on Monday, as the closure entered its 13th day.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on the President Donald Trump's role in the Israel war and China's rising aggression amid trade tension.

Stephen Miller was apparently calling the shots in the Trump administration’s lethal military strikes on Venezuelan boats accused of drug smuggling. The White House deputy chief of staff and homeland security adviser played a principal role in the operations, which were led by his homeland security council, The Guardian reported Monday.

A sudden escalation in the U.S.-China trade war has threatened to undo months of progress between the world's two largest economies.

Weeks after he reportedly threatened to punch top housing finance official Bill Pulte “in the f—---- face”, Bessent has been slugged with a mortgage-related punch of his own, after reportedly agreeing to occupy two different houses as his “principal residence” at the same time.

And back up goes Wall Street. U.S. stocks rallied Monday after President Donald Trump said ” it will all be fine,” just days after he sent the market reeling by threatening much higher tariffs on China.