Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has been granted an extension after failing to fully divest all his assets in compliance with an ethics agreement, according to documents reviewed by Bloomberg.

The Treasury secretary has been slow to shed assets, including farmland, posing potential conflicts of interest.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent called for a ban on lawmakers trading individual stocks, taking a shot at former Speaker Rep ...

The president has crowed about the billions of dollars collected so far from tariffs. That money could be at risk if the ...

Rapid run-up reflects emergency spending during the multi-year COVID-19 crisis, when the government borrowed heavily under ...

Joe Lavorgna, Counselor to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, joins 'Squawk Box' to discuss President Trump's plan to charge 15% export tax on Nvidia and AMD, state of the economy, accuracy of the BLS ...

The U.S. government's budget deficit grew nearly 20% despite a nearly $21 billion jump in customs duty collections from Trump ...

During her remarks in a House hearing in May, Representative Ayanna Pressley put Scott Bessent in his place for refusing to ...

That’s part of the plan too. Back in 1981, Reagan proposed major cuts to Social Security. But he largely abandoned his plans after a sharp backlash. This led the libertarians at the Cato Institute to ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Wednesday that the Trump administration was committed to protecting Social Security hours after he said in an interview that a new ...

The Treasury Secretary has described new savings account for young Americans as a "backdoor for privatizing Social Security." ...

(CNN) — Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Wednesday likened the Trump accounts created by Republicans’ massive new domestic policy law to “a backdoor for privatizing Social Security ...