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Acting Comptroller of the Currency Rodney Hood says his agency is ready to hit the ground running as Congress moves closer to handing the OCC major new authority to oversee stablecoins.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent discusses U.S. debt management, inflation expectations, Chairman Jerome Powell's fate in the ...

Several of the appointed employees previously served in policy adviser and communications roles during the first Trump administration.

As Fed chairman, Powell has resisted Trump’s urging to cut interest rates. Powell is waiting for the tariffs to affect prices before making any changes.

Kicking off America’s 250th birthday celebration, President Donald Trump’s "big beautiful bill" is unleashing growth and ...

Treasury Department Secretary Scott Bessent addressed his reported clashes with Elon Musk during a congressional hearing on Wednesday, rejecting claims that he called Musk a “fraud” as “fake ...

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent downplayed his beef with billionaire tycoon Elon Musk, describing himself as a nimble ninja-like operative while musing that the later “fancies himself more o… ...

But Bessent is still constrained by the looming deadline and the arguable raison d’être of the modern-day treasury secretary: the debt ceiling.

Scott Bessent is the first openly gay Treasury Secretary and the first openly LGBTQ Senate-confirmed Cabinet member in a Republican administration. A Yale graduate, he built a distinguished career ...

Donald Trump ’s Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is downplaying his widely reported clash with billionaire tech mogul Elon Musk, the former head of the Department of Government Efficiency. Speaking on ...

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt minimised reports of a physical confrontation between Elon Musk and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, describing it as a "robust disagreement." ...