The Senate confirmed Scott Bessent as Treasury secretary on Monday, elevating the hedge fund manager to the new administration’s top financial job as President Donald Trump forges ahead on an ambitious economic agenda.

Scott Bessent was sworn in as Treasury Secretary on Tuesday, taking the helm of one of the government agencies most critical to President Donald Trump’s sweeping economic agenda.

The U.S. Senate confirmed billionaire investor Scott Bessent on Monday to become the next Treasury secretary and enact the Trump administration's economic agenda of tax cuts and tariffs.

Scott Bessent. Marco Rubio ... “He took credit for the cease fire deal with Israel and Hamas, because that’s important for him. That is probably going to translate over into foreign policy ...

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President Biden is sounding the alarm on the growing influence of ultra-wealthy billionaires on American life, a notion Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Treasury Department Scott Bessent refused to acknowledge during his confirmation hearing this week.

Bessent, 62, is a longtime hedge fund manager, Trump donor and adviser. He'll be the point person for Trump on a host of key economic issues.

Three of President Donald Trump's cabinet picks prepared for skepticism and intense grilling from Democratic senators during their confirmation hearings Thursday.

Billionaire financier Howard Lutnick, President Donald Trump's choice to lead the Commerce Department, said Wednesday that he would sell all of his business holdings within 90 days. Lutnick, head of the investment firm Cantor Fitzgerald,

Ryan English, 24, was carrying makeshift explosives and knives near the U.S. Capitol building on Monday, police charge in court papers.

On Monday, senators voted 68 to 29 to confirm billionaire hedge fund manager Scott Bessent as U.S. Treasury secretary, with 16 Democrats supporting the nomination. In a statement, Public Citizen called Bessent “an oligarch who spent a career serving rich clients,

Scott Bessent, a billionaire hedge fund manager, will lead President Donald Trump 's financial agenda as treasury secretary. Bessent was confirmed in a 68-29 U.S. Senate vote on Monday and sworn in on Tuesday. It is his first time overseeing a sprawling organization or working in government, The New York Times reported .