The sweeping tariffs President Trump announced last week were a "negotiating strategy," Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent ...

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has stepped up his role on President Trump’s economic team, taking center stage on the president’s plans for tariffs ... with the impact of double digit ...

In an interview with NBC News’ “Meet the Press,” Bessent called it a “false narrative” that people who are close to retiring ...

With the president’s tariff pause doing little to quell panic in the markets, his man at the Treasury has been put in an essentially impossible position. His fate is an increasingly open question ...

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent downplayed growing fears ... is mulling potential subsidies to mitigate the impact of retaliatory tariffs on farmers and other key groups that may be impacted.

The US took steps to impose levies on Chinese ships that dock at US ports, escalating the trade war between the world's two ...

China and the European Union earlier had unveiled stiff retaliation levies on the U.S. aimed at countering Trump's tariff ...

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent tried to reassure CEOs of big companies, saying there will be “clarity” on the ...

The president had upended global trade with punishing tariffs on both allies and adversaries, and Treasury Secretary Scott ... Bessent was pressed over the strategy behind the tariffs and the ...

Stanley Druckenmiller, the billionaire hedge fund manager who was once Treasury Secretary Scott ... of American tariffs. Speaking on NBC’s Meet the Press with Kristen Welker, Bessent pushed ...

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent flew to Florida ... emphasis on talking about his endgame with tariffs — winning deals with other countries. “Bessent’s view was, ‘The markets will keep ...