Days after his Senate confirmation, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has paid $12.5 million for a historic mansion in ...

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Wednesday signaled that the White House wants Trump's tax cut package from 2017 to be ...

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Donald Trump is not asking the Federal Reserve to lower its short-term interest rates, ...

The U.S. Treasury's payment system won't be touched by Elon Musk's government efficiency team, Treasury Secretary Scott ...

Bessent, a hedge fund manager, becomes the nation’s 79th Treasury secretary. He will lead President Trump’s economic agenda.

In an email sent from acting director Scott Bessent, employees were told to pause all work related to issuing rules, ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is a consumer watchdog agency formed in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis. Elon ...

In a letter to the Treasury secretary, the Democratic senator warned against meddling with a system that processes trillions ...

The U.S. Senate has confirmed billionaire investor Scott Bessent as President Donald Trump's treasury secretary.

The first openly gay person in the role has the delicate balancing act of cutting taxes and curbing deficits while putting ...

The Trump-Musk ransacking of the federal government must stop. The courts offer one important way to apply the brake, says an administrative law scholar. The Washington Monthly is an independent voice ...