Colombia agrees to accept deported migrants; US drops tariff threat but maintains other penalties for now.

Donald Trump’s Treasury secretary Scott Bessent is pushing for new universal tariffs on US imports to start at 2.5 per cent and rise gradually, said four people familiar with the proposal.

The billionaire investor Scott Bessent will serve as US President Donald Trump's treasury secretary, the US Senate confirmed on Monday. The hedge fun

The Senate on Monday confirmed billionaire hedge fund manager and investor Scott Bessent as President Trump’s Treasury secretary, making him the highest-ranking LGBTQ official in the nation’s ...

The U.S. Senate could vote to confirm Republican President Donald Trump's nominee for treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, this weekend, Majority Leader John Thune said on Thursday.

U.S. Treasury nominee Scott Bessent plans to say at his confirmation hearing that President-elect Donald Trump has an opportunity to unleash “a new economic golden age.”

Before the election, Bessent said he liked Trump’s economic agenda because it tied together economic policy with national security.

The U.S. Senate confirmed Scott Bessent Monday to serve as President ... Trump threatened tariffs on Colombia over the weekend after the country raised concerns about deportation flights, but ...

In a mostly bipartisan vote, the Senate confirmed Scott Bessent as Treasury secretary on Monday, solidifying his role to advance Trump’s economic agenda.

President Donald Trump has once again ramped up his tariff rhetoric, with traders now expecting potentially harsher tariffs to be announced in the coming days. Scott Bessent, the hedge fund manager who was confirmed as the next Treasury secretary on Monday,

Scott Bessent was sworn in as Treasury Secretary on Tuesday, taking the helm of one of the government agencies most critical to President Donald Trump’s sweeping economic agenda.