Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent following the tariff announcement in the Rose Garden Wednesday. (Jim Lo Scalzo/Bloomberg News) Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent encouraged trading partners not to ...

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent (left) shakes hands with House Majority Leader Steve Scalise at the tariff announcement Wednesday. (Jim LoScalzo- Pool via CNP/Zuma Press) Treasury Secretary Scott ...

Claims that Trump administration officials were mulling a tax hike on millionaires had one adviser suggesting why that “conversation should now be over.” While efforts were underway […] ...

President Donald Trump is considering increasing taxes on Americans who make over $1 million a year to offset his tax cuts. Trump, Vice President JD Vance and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent are open ...

Some in Trump’s inner circle have expressed openness to raising taxes on those earning $1 million or more a year, according ...

According to sources who spoke with the Washington Post, Trump's team is weighing whether the president should back raising ...

In recent weeks, as President Donald Trump’s trade war has battered both stocks and business confidence, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has declared multiple times that the U.S. economy needs ...

Senior White House officials maintain that the senior counselor for trade Peter Navarro, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, and U.S. Trade Rep. Jamieson Greer all ...

The president had upended global trade with punishing tariffs on both allies and adversaries, and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent was at the center of it, defending a policy that many in the room ...

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. Bessent spearheaded the rollout of Trump ...

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent wasn’t directly involved in setting the steepest American tariff rates since before World War II. But he’s now in charge of negotiations to avoid them getting ...