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Trump to shift consumer watchdog pick to senior Treasury role
U.S. President Donald Trump's pick to lead the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Jonathan McKernan, has instead been ...
Hollywood Life7d
Does Scott Bessent Have Children? A Look at the Treasury Secretary’s Family
Bessent is married to John Freeman, a former New York City ... Bessent announced that he would sever ties with the group as Treasury Secretary.
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Bessent show: Treasury secretary taking over as top dog on Trump’s trade team
President Donald Trump’s informal elevation of Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent as his top adviser on trade seems to have advanced negotiations with American trading partners and eased concerns ...
Politico5d
‘Glaring red flag’: Treasury DOGE team discloses bank stock holdings
In February, he also took on the duties of Treasury’s fiscal assistant secretary after David Lebryk, a longtime career official, resigned amid a clash over DOGE’s access to the payments systems.
ABC News10d
Treasury secretary calls on Congress to raise or suspend the debt ceiling by mid-July
After the debt limit was reinstated in January, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen — in one of her last acts in the position — said the agency would institute “extraordinary measures" intended ...
AOL12d
What Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said at the Milken event (and how his critics responded)
While Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told an audience ... how and when that will happen remains unclear. (My colleague Jeff John Roberts has a deeper analysis of Bessent’s remarks.) ...