Vietnam's National Assembly on Tuesday approved a bold bureaucratic reform plan that will slash up to a fifth of government ...

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, shown at a confirmation hearing, said President Donald Trump is "not calling for the Fed to lower interest rates." AFP President Donald Trump is focused on 10 ...

Ivanka Trump used over $11,000 from the department in 2019 to buy video recording and reproducing equipment for a White House ...

(CNN) — Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has a new plan in the fight to bring down historically high interest rates, and it’s got nothing to do with the Federal Reserve. Bessent, in two ...

Foreign aid programs at risk of being cut by Trump and Musk represent a tiny fraction of overall federal spending.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump's tariff plans are largely aimed at bringing manufacturing back to the United States, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told Fox Business on ...

At the helm of U.S. debt management policy for the first time, Bessent left broadly intact former Secretary Janet Yellen’s agenda. The Treasury will next week sell $125 billion of debt in its so ...

Scott Bessent, who was confirmed as Treasury secretary last week, has been named acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Bessent replaces Rohit Chopra, who was fired on Saturday.

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A billionaire investor and former adjunct professor at Yale, Bessent just became the ninth Yale graduate to hold the position and will succeed Janet Yellen GRD ’71, former President Joe Biden’s ...

Before leaving office this month, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen warned congressional leaders that Treasury would start taking “extraordinary measures,” or special accounting manoeuvres ...