Scott Bessent
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EconomyUnder Biden, America got 150 countries to agree a 15% global corporate tax. Under Trump, America gets an exemption
By Fatima Hussein and The Associated PressJanuary 5, 2026
LawTreasury Secretary Bessent insists Trump’s tariff agenda is ‘permanent,’ saying the White House can re-create it even with a Supreme Court loss
By Marco Quiroz-GutierrezDecember 5, 2025
EconomyTariffs and the $38 trillion national debt: Kevin Hassett sees ’big reductions’ in deficit while Scott Bessent sees a ‘shrinking ice cube’
By Nick LichtenbergDecember 4, 2025
Banking‘We’re going to veto them’: Bessent backs new rules to give White House more power over Federal Reserve
By Christopher Rugaber and The Associated PressDecember 3, 2025
EconomyScott Bessent calls the Giving Pledge well-intentioned but ‘very amorphous,’ growing from ‘a panic among the billionaire class’
By Nick LichtenbergDecember 3, 2025
EconomyScott Bessent is defiant on whether tariffs are a tax, demands Democrats work to cut actual taxes instead
By Nick LichtenbergDecember 3, 2025
By Nino PaoliNovember 26, 2025
EconomyScott Bessent wants the era of Fed-watching to end: They should ‘move back into the background’ and make fewer speeches, he says
By Eleanor PringleNovember 26, 2025
PoliticsTrump tells Scott Bessent to fix the Fed’s high interest rates or ‘I’m going to fire your ass’
By Dave SmithNovember 20, 2025
EconomyTrump urges Scott Bessent to take Fed chair role, ‘but he wants no part of it, he likes being secretary of the Treasury’
By Christopher Rugaber, Josh Boak and The Associated PressNovember 20, 2025
By Eleanor PringleNovember 18, 2025
PoliticsTrump turned tariffs into his foreign-policy weapon. This week, the Supreme Court will decide if he went too far
By Michelle S. Price and The Associated PressNovember 3, 2025
North AmericaTrump and Xi Jinping meet at a temporary trade truce just days after China purchased its first U.S. soybeans from this year’s harvest
By Nino PaoliOctober 30, 2025
By Chris Megerian, David Rising, Eileen Ng and The Associated PressOctober 26, 2025
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