"I am most pleased to nominate Scott Bessent to serve as the 79th Secretary of the Treasury of the United States," Trump said ...

President-elect announced nominations to lead several departments and agencies as he continues to staff his next ...

Billionaire hedge fund manager and SC native Scott Bessent has been nominated by incoming president Donald Trump to lead the ...

If confirmed, Bessent will be tasked with implementing any tax cuts a Republican-controlled Congress may pursue.

President-elect Donald Trump chose Scott Bessent to lead the Treasury Department late Friday evening. “I am most pleased to ...

Bessent spent his career in finance and gives Wall Street an advocate for tax reform and deregulation. Some call his ...

President-elect Donald Trump has chosen hedge fund manager Scott Bessent, an advocate for deficit reduction, to serve as his ...

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump is scheduled to interview former Federal Reserve Governor Kevin Warsh and Apollo Global ...

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Bessent, the 62-year-old founder of Key Square Group, has repeatedly backed the president-elect’s pro-tariff stance in a ...

Bessent is the founder of the hedge fund Key Square Management, which Forbes reports had less than $600 million in assets as of the end of 2023. The South Carolina native and Yale graduate is a member ...

Jack Smith, the special counsel who brought a pair of felony cases against Donald J. Trump, one accusing him of attempting to ...