The Senate voted 68-29 on Monday to confirm Bessent, who was President Donald Trump’s pick to succeed former Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen.

President Donald Trump filled a key role in his cabinet Monday when the Senate confirmed Scott Bessent, a Wall Street veteran ...

The new Treasury Department chief didn't bring up crypto policy at his nomination hearing, but he'll have enormous reach into ...

November 20, 2017 - Yellen tells President Trump in a letter that she will step down from the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors when her successor is sworn in as the new chairman. February 5, 2018 ...

President Donald Trump has inherited a much different economic beast than he did in 2017 and has no time to waste in slaying ...

If a conflict between the U.S. and China were to emerge, potentially over Taiwan, Americans would have a far more serious ...

The government exceeded its borrowing limit on Trump's second day in office, leaving the new government with an uncertain ...

(CNN) — Here is a look at women in business, education, government and sports who have broken through the glass ceiling and become the first in their respective positions in the United States. 1739 - ...

Trump drops the ax on a corporate-tax deal whacking U.S. firms.

In one of her last acts as Treasury Secretary, Janet Yellen said her agency will start taking “extraordinary mea ...

The new president and congressional leaders are meeting Tuesday to hash out a strategy for maintaining US creditworthiness ...

A recent breach of the US Treasury yielded access to Secretary Janet Yellen's computer along with those of two of her ...