On January 31, 2025, the CFPB announced President Donald Trump had appointed Scott Bessent as Acting Director of the CFPB. In ...

Democratic lawmakers are seeking a Treasury Department investigation of the access that Elon Musk’s team was given to the ...

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said he favors a strong dollar and has no plans to alter the government’s debt-issuance ...

Josh Hawley, Bernie Sanders Propose Capping Credit Card Interest Rates at 10% A new bipartisan bill introduced by a pair of ...

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Thursday he wouldn’t be commenting on the Federal Reserve’s interest rate policies and expressed confidence in Fed Chair Jerome Powell, breaking from ...

The US Treasury said Tuesday that Elon Musk's government reform team can read data from its highly sensitive payment system but not alter it, after Democratic lawmakers raised the alarm ...

The Trump-Musk ransacking of the federal government must stop. The courts offer one important way to apply the brake, says an administrative law scholar. The Washington Monthly is an independent voice ...

Elon Musk and his aides have taken control of the US Treasury Department's payments system, triggering a lawsuit charging he ...

The secretary replaces Rohit Chopra, who had aggressively sought to expand the bureau’s authority over banks and other ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Department of Government Efficiency, run by President Donald Trump’s billionaire adviser and Tesla CEO ...

But a purported X post from new Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent about abolishing the federal income tax isn’t authentic.

The U.S. Capitol Police arrested a man with Molotov cocktails and knives who was allegedly attempting to kill House Speaker ...