Scott Bessent

Friday on Fox News Channel’s “The Will Cain Show,” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent reacted to the Supreme Court’s 6-3 ruling against the Trump administration’s use of tariffs under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA).

Wages for private-sector workers outpaced inflation by roughly $1,400 during President Donald Trump’s first year in office, according to the White House, after runaway inflation crushed Americans’ buying power during the Biden administration.

On this week’s broadcast of Fox News Channel’s “Sunday Morning Futures,” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the Dow Jones Industrial Average hitting the 50,000 milestone was “telling you that Main Street is about to prosper.”

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Thursday that Iran’s ruling elite are “wiring money out of the country like crazy,” declaring that “the rats are leaving the ship” as the Trump administration’s pressure campaign accelerates the regime’s economic collapse.

Senate Republicans on Tuesday urged the Treasury Department and the United States Trade Representative (USTR) to combat illegal Chinese e-cigarettes.

Washington, DC — Rap icon Nicki Minaj shaded the far-left governor of California during a Trump administration event on Wednesday, calling him Gavin “Newscum” and saying Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent “obliterated him” in his recent World Economic Forum speech.

WASHINGTON — Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told Breitbart News exclusively at the Trump Accounts launch summit at the Mellon Auditorium in downtown Washington DC on Wednesday that these accounts may end up being President Donald Trump’s most “enduring” legacy item that will positively impact generations to come in this country.

WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump forecasted at Wednesday’s Trump Accounts Summit that the investment accounts will “put $3-$4 trillion of wealth into the hands of young Americans” over the next 15 years.

Rap Megastar Nicki Minaj is pledging hundreds of thousands of dollars to help fund her fans’ babies born during the Trump administration, as part of the president’s new $1,000 tax-advantaged investment accounts program.

Breitbart News speaks with members of the Trump White House and lawmakers at a summit to detail the Trump accounts on Wednesday, January 28.

President Donald Trump has been briefed on U.S. intelligence assessments describing Iran’s regime as being in its weakest position since the 1979 revolution, citing internal dissent, economic collapse, and growing instability, according to officials familiar with the briefings.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Monday that during a phone call with President Donald Trump, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney “walked back” some of the fiery comments he made at the World Economic Form (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, last week.

“Acting President” of Venezuela Delcy Rodríguez on Monday responded to “irrelevant and offensive statements” from Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent by asserting Venezuela “does not accept orders from any external factor.”

President Donald Trump’s administration is hosting a summit in Washington, DC, to discuss how the proposed Trump Accounts will financially benefit young Americans in the years to come.

“The Iranian regime is engaged in a ritual of economic self-immolation,” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Friday, as the Trump administration imposed new sanctions on Iran’s oil-export “shadow fleet” amid a widening crackdown on protesters and mounting U.S. pressure across the region.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent continued his hilariously accurate attacks on Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) Thursday by pointing out that the failed governor is “in over his hairdo.”

A new report from the conservative group Defend Forgotten America details how 90 rural hospitals nationwide are closed or facing credit downgrades representing what the group calls a “national health access emergency” that demands a solution by President Donald Trump and his administration.

California Governor Gavin Newsom claimed Wednesday the Trump administration blocked him from addressing globalist elites at a World Economic Forum (WEF) event in Davos.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent took aim at California Governor Gavin Newsom during a speech at the World Economic Forum this week, focusing on Newsom’s economic record, his presence in Davos alongside Alex Soros, and his handling of issues such as homelessness, budget deficits, and pandemic-era policies.

America’s relations with Europe remain strong and trans-Atlantic trading partners are best advised to “take a deep breath” and let tensions driven by the Trump administration’s new tariff proposals over Greenland “play out,”  U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Tuesday counseled.

Rep. Randy Feenstra has introduced legislation aimed at preventing individuals receiving public assistance from wiring money internationally, citing taxpayer abuse and recent high-profile fraud scandals as key motivations for the measure.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced sweeping new sanctions Thursday on senior Iranian officials and regime-linked financial networks, saying Tehran’s ruling elite are “rats fleeing the ship” as they frantically wire tens of millions of dollars out of the country amid mounting unrest.

Argentina repaid the $2.5 billion it drew down from a $20 billion swap line that President Javier Milei signed with the administration of President Donald Trump, Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent announced over the weekend.

Trump’s deputies are sending hundreds of additional agents to Minneapolis to protect the federal investigation of the Democrats’ fraud-and-migration political machine in Minnesota.

Cash payments will be waiting for whistleblowers who provide information related to Minnesota’s unfolding fraud scandal, U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Friday.

The United States has withdrawn from the Green Climate Fund and relinquished its seat on the fund’s board, according to a Treasury Department announcement describing the move as aligned with the Trump administration’s exit from the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change.

Speaking to business leaders at the Economic Club of Minnesota, Bessent laid out a vision of an economy revitalized by strategic government intervention in trade, sweeping changes to the tax code, and a sharp pivot away from regulations he said had stifled entrepreneurship and innovation.

WASHINGTON—Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said at a press conference on Wednesday at the Treasury Department that tax-advantaged Trump Accounts for America’s youth will be “transformative” in furthering financial literacy in response to a question from Breitbart News.

Education Secretary Linda McMahon called for Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) to resign over reports of massive education fraud within Minnesota’s college system.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says President Donald Trump’s mass deportation agenda is helping bring rents down.

White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles blasted Vanity Fair on Tuesday for its “disingenuously framed hit piece,” which she says omitted crucial context.

An economic boom is coming in the first two quarters of 2026, Jason Miller, senior advisor to President Trump, said during an appearance on Breitbart News Saturday, predicting the economy will “take off like a rocket ship” in 2026.

This is the Breitbart Business Digest weekly wrap, in which we coincidentally run through the economic and financial news of the previous seven days.

Minnesota’s leftist governor, Tim Walz (D), is apparently trying to manage the massive fraud case that has brought heavy criticism from government leaders.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Thursday outlined a sweeping reset of the U.S. government’s main financial stability watchdog, arguing that the Financial Stability Oversight Council should treat economic growth and economic security as preconditions for stability, not competing goals

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent called Govs. Kathy Hochul (D-NY), Jared Polis (D-CO), and JB Pritzker (D-IL) the “Grinches Who Stole Christmas” for their states’ refusal to conform to President Donald Trump’s July 4 tax relief bill in a Wednesday social media post.