Scott Bessent, President-elect Trump’s pick to lead the Treasury Department, plans to tell senators during his confirmation ...
Mr. Bessent called the extension of the 2017 Trump tax cuts ‘the single most important economic issue of the day.’ ...
Treasury Secretary nominee Scott Bessent sparred with the Senate Finance Committee over the future direction of fiscal policy ...
The Treasury secretary nominee cultivated allies in Trump’s orbit who have come to see him as a brainy avatar of their vision ...
Bessent today could again push back on the view that Trump’s economic policies — such as tariff increases, tax cuts that could add to the deficit and reductions in immigration — will be inflationary.