During his remarks in a Senate hearing this week, Senator Peter Welch got into a heated exchange with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent over the Trump Administration's use of tariffs.

President Trump told reporters this week that he would send letters to trading partners in the next week or two setting ...

Refrigerators, washing machines and other appliances are the latest items to face new tariffs. The Trump administration is expanding its steel and aluminum tariffs. NPR's Alina Selyukh is here to ...

During his testimony before the Senate Finance Committee yesterday, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent reveals he is unaware of ...

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

House-passed bill slashes income of poorest Americans by $1,600 & boosts wealthy by $12,000, middle-income families gain ...

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

Birmingham, grilled Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on the implications of President Donald Trump’s tax cut legislation on ...

Plaskett took note of how Bessent was interrupting other members of Congress during the hearing and reminded him on how manners work.

Japanese Finance Minister Katsunobu Kato said on Friday he had not specifically discussed Japan's $1 trillion-plus holdings of U.S. Treasury securities during past meetings with U.S. Treasury ...

Democrat Virgin Islands Delegate Stacey Plaskett took to X Wednesday afternoon, in a graphic and misspelled post, to respond ...

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