Each Cabinet-level nominee must go through a public hearing in the relevant Senate committee and then be confirmed by the ...

"I will be 100% on board with taking sanctions up," Treasury Secretary-pick Scott Bessent told lawmakers on Thursday.

Countries around the world are bracing for an economic bruising starting Monday. And few have more at stake than Canada, as Trump threatens imminent trade actions. Here are the laws he might apply, ...

The US Treasury Department will start taking "extraordinary measures" next week to avoid risking a default on government debt, Secretary Janet Yellen said. | TAG24 ...

In one of her last acts as Treasury Secretary, Janet Yellen said her agency will start taking “extraordinary measures,” or ...

Washington Post columnist Catherine Rampell has some unkind words for the economic plan being pitched by Scott Bessent, who ...

Trump’s second term agenda includes cutting ‘slackers’ from federal workforce, former OMB official says ...

Their exchange on the minimum wage shows two views of the world.

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

The national debt is slated to rise by $23.9 trillion over the next decade, a sum that does not include trillions of dollars ...

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

Scott Bessent, President-elect Trump’s pick as Treasury secretary, owns North Dakota farmland on which he earns between $100,000 and $1 million per year, but plans to divest himself of it if he is ...