New York Post

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent threatens housing regulator Bill Pulte in explosive Trump admin fight: ‘Punch you in your f—ing face’

WASHINGTON — Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Bill Pulte, director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, got into an explosive argument last week — with threats of physical violence involved, The Post has confirmed. Two sources say that Bessent ...
The New York Times

Bessent Has Yet to Fully Divest Assets, Raising Concern at Ethics Agency

The Treasury secretary has been slow to shed assets, including farmland, posing potential conflicts of interest. By Alan Rappeport Alan Rappeport covers the Treasury Department and writes about economic policy. The U.S. government’s ethics watchdog ...
UPI

U.S. Treasury announces rescue plan for Argentine economy

Sept. 24 (UPI) --The U.S. Treasury is preparing a $20 billion currency swap with Argentina, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Wednesday. He announced the plan after Argentine President Javier Milei met a day earlier with President Donald Trump at the ...
CNN

New tariffs are generating billions of dollars in revenue, but Bessent says that will go toward paying national debt

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Tuesday threw cold water on the idea that Americans could soon receive tariff rebate checks. Bessent, during an interview on CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” said that revenue from import tariffs will be put toward the US ...
Washington Examiner

What are the tariff rebates Bessent has warned would be ‘terrible’ for Treasury Department?

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the Trump administration would have to offer rebates to importers affected by President Donald Trump’s “reciprocal” and fentanyl-related tariffs if the Supreme Court orders them to, even though it “would be ...
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