The Treasury secretary is seen as a moderating influence on President Trump. But he’s on a mission to disrupt government as we know it.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent worked with Trump on the pause of Liberation Day tariffs and explained the news instead of ...

As the global economy tanked, wiping trillions of dollars off the stock market, Donald Trump gathered two of his closest ...

The Treasury secretary received counsel and criticism from some of his predecessors over President Trump’s policies.

When hedge-fund billionaire Scott Kenneth Homer Bessent was nominated last fall by Donald Trump to serve as the nation’s 79th ...

In an interview with NBC News’ “Meet the Press,” Bessent called it a “false narrative” that people who are close to retiring ...

Reuters White House Correspondent Jeff Mason explains the larger role U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has taken this ...

Bessent said "what I've been very impressed with is the market infrastructure, that we had record volume on Friday." ...

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has stepped up his role on President Trump’s economic team, taking center stage on the ...

Stanley Druckenmiller, the billionaire hedge fund manager who was once Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s boss when they both ...

Minutes after President Donald Trump announced a 90-day pause on a tariff plan that triggered a stock market rout and global ...

Vietnam’s deputy prime minister held high-level talks in Washington with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Commerce ...