Scott Bessent's wise comments on tariffs, taxes, spending, and debt calmed investors and sent markets soaring.

President-elect Donald Trump's Treasury secretary nominee Scott Bessent favors imposing tariffs on China, sanctions on Russia ...

The fund manager will face senators at a confirmation hearing on Thursday ...

Bessent said he believed Trump's presidency would help "unleash a new economic golden age," which could include more jobs and ...

Treasury Secretary nominee Scott Bessent outlined a three-pronged approach to tariffs during his Senate testimony this week, ...

Treasury Secretary nominee Scott Bessent sparred with the Senate Finance Committee over the future direction of fiscal policy ...

Trump's picks fit into three groups: the fortifiers (the good), the detractors (the bad), and the mercurial influencers who ...

Scott Bessent called carbon tariffs against the Chinese an “interesting idea” but balked at the idea of a “clean energy race.

Asked whether Congress should abandon the federal debt ceiling, Bessent said that if Trump requested that, he would work with ...

Treasury nominee Bessent a shoo-in Trump’s foreign policy steps into unstable world Gaza truce back on track Inauguration Day ...

U.S. Treasury nominee Scott Bessent on Thursday faced sharp questions from both Democrats and Republicans on tax policies, ...

Senators quizzed Trump's Interior secretary nominee, proposed EPA administrator and Treasury secretary nominee.