Trump’s Billionaire Treasury Pick Stresses Importance of Tax Cuts for Billionaires
Scott Bessent, Donald Trump's pick for Treasury Secretary, stressed the importance of tax cuts for the wealthy during his ...
How Trump’s Treasury Nominee Allegedly Avoided Nearly $1 Million in Taxes
Hedge fund manager Scott Bessent is facing questions about his personal taxes at a hearing on his treasury secretary ...
Confirmation hearings day 3 highlights: Doug Burgum, Scott Bessent and other Cabinet picks face Senate questions
In a new memo obtained by NBC News, Senate Finance Democratic tax staff found that Scott Bessent avoided over $950,000 of ...
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Democrats Parrot Biden’s ‘O-Word’ in Effort To Paint Treasury Nominee Scott Bessent as a Faux Populist
Mr. Bessent called the extension of the 2017 Trump tax cuts ‘the single most important economic issue of the day.’ ...
Trump Treasury pick Scott Bessent defends sweeping tariffs in contentious Senate hearing
Donald Trump's pick for Treasury secretary repeatedly defended a range of tariff ideas during his confirmation hearing before ...
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Trump’s Treasury secretary nominee Scott Bessent ’84 testifies before Senate Finance Committee
Bessent spoke before the Senate Finance Committee about his economic vision for America, addressing key issues like tax ...
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Trump Treasury Pick’s Economic Plan Would ‘Require Massive Cuts to Anti-Poverty Programs’: Analysis
Scott Bessent’s “3-3-3” agenda “requires brutal cuts to health and nutrition and higher costs for families at the grocery ...
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Trump nominee for Treasury opposes higher taxes on billionaires, decries federal spending
President-elect Donald Trump’s choice for Treasury secretary appeared on track for Senate confirmation after a wide-ranging ...
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Trump’s pick to lead the Treasury Department backs tariffs and extended tax cuts during confirmation hearing
South Carolina billionaire investor and hedge-fund manager Scott Bessent faced questioning on Capitol Hill Thursday during ...
Trump Treasury pick Bessent backs Fed independence, dollar, sanctions on Russian oil
President-elect Donald Trump's pick for Treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, said on Thursday that the dollar should remain the world's reserve currency, the Federal Reserve should stay independent and ...
CBO projects U.S. debt to grow $23.9 trillion in 10 years, not including costs of extending tax cuts
The national debt is slated to rise by $23.9 trillion over the next decade, a sum that does not include trillions of dollars ...
Democrats: Bessent avoided Medicare tax on hedge fund earnings
Senate Democrats are gearing up for a fight against Scott Bessent, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for Treasury secretary ...