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Scott Bessent, President-elect Trump’s pick to lead the Treasury Department, plans to tell senators during his confirmation hearing the next four years will present an opportunity for an “economic

Scott Bessent, President-elect Trump's pick for treasury secretary, will appear for a Senate Finance Committee confirmation hearing today, where he will discuss the incoming president's economic vision.

The stakes have never been higher, but with Bessent at the helm of the Trump economic team, a brighter future is within reach.

In a new memo obtained by NBC News, Senate Finance Democratic tax staff found that Scott Bessent avoided over $950,000 of self-employment taxes.

Senate hearings are scheduled this week for several of Trump’s picks for the Cabinet. Thursday's hearings include Doug Burgum, Scott Turner, Lee Zeldin, Pam Bondi and Scott Bessent. Watch live.

President-elect Donald Trump's Cabinet nominees Scott Bessent, Doug Burgum, Lee Zeldin and Scott Turner will sit for Senate confirmation hearings Thursday.

The Senate Finance Committee grilled President-elect Donald Trump’s choice for Treasury Secretary Thursday. Scott Bessent, a South Carolina billionaire hedge fund manager, wasted no time getting to the crux of his confirmation hearing: the expiring Trump tax cuts.

The billionaire money manager from South Carolina, Scott Bessent, takes questions from members of the Senate Finance Committee for confirmation to the Treasury Department. Bessent would be the first openly LGBTQ Senate-confirmed Cabinet member in a Republican administration.

Scott Bessent, President-elect Trump’s pick as Treasury secretary, owns North Dakota farmland on which he earns between $100,000 and $1 million per year, but plans to divest himself of it if he is confirmed,

In one of her last acts as Treasury secretary, Janet Yellen said her agency will start taking “extraordinary measures,” or special accounting maneuvers intended to prevent the nation from