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

Bessent grew up in Little River with big dreams. He’s suddenly risen so high in national politics that few South Carolinians have ever gone higher.

Donald Trump’s pick for Treasury doesn’t seem to care about his own community Scott Bessent is a married gay man with kids. He has no qualms about working in the most anti-LGBTQ+ Cabinet ever. HRC ...

He's married to John Freeman, a former New York City prosecutor ... gave the B.A.R. a statement January 29. "Scott Bessent marks the first time an openly-LGBTQ+ person will serve as Treasury Secretary ...

Scott Bessent will lead President Donald Trump's financial agenda as treasury secretary. Bessent, a billionaire hedge fund manager, was confirmed in a 68 to 29 U.S. Senate vote on Monday and sworn ...

Scott Bessent ’84, President Donald Trump’s nominee for Treasury secretary, was confirmed by the Senate on Monday in a 68-29 vote. A billionaire investor and former adjunct professor at Yale, Bessent ...

“Scott has long been a strong advocate of the America First ... being confirmed as Secretary of Transportation for the Biden administration. In 2011, Bessent married his husband John Freedman, a New ...

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. Bessent ...

An armed man arrested at the U.S. Capitol said he planned to kill Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, and burn down The ...