A top Treasury official left the agency after Elon Musk's allies allegedly demanded access to the Social Security payment system. Apu Gomes/Getty Images A top Treasury official has left the agency ...

Senior Treasury Department official David A. Lebryk is expected to step down from his position as fiscal assistant secretary after more than three decades at the agency. According to The ...

Omar Chatriwala / Getty Images The Secretary of the Treasury runs the U.S. Department of the Treasury, a Cabinet-level agency of the federal government. The department is responsible for ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. The U.S. Senate confirmed billionaire investor Scott Bessent on Monday to serve as President Donald Trump ...

President Donald Trump's Treasury secretary pick, Scott Bessent, pushes for new tariffs and warns of a 'calamity' if tax cuts expire. Confirmed by the Senate, Bessent emphasizes reducing taxes, ...

Scott Bessent, President-elect Donald Trump's choice to be Secretary of the Treasury, appears before the Senate Finance Committee for his confirmation hearing, at the Capitol in Washington ...

As head of the Treasury, 62-year-old Bessent faces pressure to address the federal debt limit and work with congressional Republicans to extend Trump’s 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is pushing for new universal tariffs on US imports to start at 2.5% and rise gradually, per the Financial Times. New universal tariffs on imports to the US ...

Washington — The Senate voted to confirm Scott Bessent as treasury secretary on Monday, as Senate Republicans work to quickly install President Trump's picks for top administration posts.

Scott Bessent on Monday secured confirmation to lead the Department of the Treasury, putting President Trump’s top economic nominee in place ahead of a daunting GOP push to enact Trump’s ...

The U.S. Senate confirmed Scott Bessent Monday to serve as President Donald Trump’s Treasury secretary, making the longtime hedge fund manager the point person for the new administration on a ...