Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent's toughest negotiating partner is Congress, and the contest is his race to finance the ...

Ultraconservative Sen. Josh Hawley introduced a bill with Sen. Peter Welch to raise the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour.

Governor Newsom hinted at withholding California's federal tax contributions in response to Trump's funding cut threats.

An all-staff email to IRS tech workers states upcoming changes are “not yet” a formal reorganization of the agency’s IT ...

Reports that the White House is considering naming Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent as the next chair of the Federal Reserve ...

Scott Bessent told lawmakers he has no knowledge of DOGE access to the tax agency’s Integrated Data Retrieval System.

Trump's latest comments about picking a new Fed chair have come as he keeps putting pressure on Powell's Fed to lower interest rates. The president called for an interest-rate cut of a full percentage ...

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent insisted Thursday that tariff are not taxes, defying the widely accepted economic and financial definition of President Trump’s top trade tool. In an ...

Scott Bessent couldn't help but laugh at Sen. Elizabeth Warren's (D-MA) crack about finding herself in agreement with former ...

Trump won't fire Fed Chair Powell, criticizes slow rate cuts, suggests supporting Fed interest rates increase if inflation ...

President Trump urged “numbskull” Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell to lower interest rates Thursday — while confirming ...

Trump has opened a fast track to citizenship for the richest people, as he continues his war on immigrants on every other ...