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The Senate voted 68-29 on Monday to confirm Bessent, who was President Donald Trump’s pick to succeed former Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen.

The Senate's confirmation of Scott Bessent as Treasury Secretary brings a pro-crypto, anti-CBDC leader to head the Treasury Department ...

Congressional GOP leaders are in a massive pickle as they weigh how to deal with a looming deadline to raise the debt ceiling ...

The breaching of the US debt limit could expose 2 bullish catalysts for stock prices: lower interest rates and gridlock among ...

Following the January inauguration, a flurry of executive orders, and Senate confirmations, the timing of when federal tax ...

For some reason, in a flurry of last-minute clemencies earlier this month, President Joe Biden let the man with a kid’s blood ...

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

President Trump is pressuring Republicans to not allow Democrats ... Former Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said in a letter last week that the U.S. would have to start using “extraordinary ...

Janet Louise Yellen was the 78th secretary of the U.S. Treasury Department ... win wide support in the Democratic coalition and would be difficult to impossible for Republicans to oppose. ... Yellen's ...

With the national debt above $36 trillion, newly-confirmed Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent vowed to rein in government ...