Scott Bessent

President Donald Trump warned Monday that Iran would be “blown off the face of the earth” if it attacks U.S. vessels carrying out Project Freedom, as Iranian forces fired missiles, drones, and deployed fast-attack boats against commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz — prompting U.S. forces to destroy six Iranian boats — while Tehran launched a major barrage at the United Arab Emirates.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent capped off financial literacy month, saying that financial literacy unlocks “opportunity for every American.”

The U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on Tuesday announced new sanctions against “35 entities and individuals that oversee Iran’s shadow banking architecture and facilitate the movement of the equivalent of tens of billions of dollars.”

The U.S. Treasury Department on Friday imposed sanctions against one of China’s “teapot refineries,” run by a company called Hengli Petrochemical in the port city of Dalian, for buying Iranian oil.

WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump said his policies, like no tax on tips and no tax on overtime, which tens of millions of Americans are claiming this tax season, show that the Republican Party is now the party of the working class.

Democrats are “affordability frauds” who would happily have handed the American people the largest tax hike in U.S. history, the WH said.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Wednesday that President Donald Trump’s tax cuts in the one Big Beautiful Bill have been a “homerun” for working-class Americans, with 53 million using at least one of the president’s new deductions.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell called Wall Street executives to an emergency meeting at Treasury headquarters in Washington this week to address cybersecurity vulnerabilities posed by Anthropic’s latest “Mythos” AI model.

A federal judge on Tuesday tossed an agreement from President Donald Trump’s Internal Revenue Service (IRS) that would have created an exemption to the Johnson Amendment and allowed churches to endorse political candidates to their congregations without risking their tax-exempt status.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent stated that the Trump administration has received more than 700 tips through a Treasury Department reporting portal as the department announced new steps aimed at uncovering fraud involving Medicare, Medicaid, and other government healthcare programs.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent appeared on FNC’s “Fox & Friends” on Monday to lay out the Trump administration’s plan to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent excoriated the Financial Times on Thursday, calling the British newspaper “tabloid trash” and accusing its journalists of fabricating a story claiming he had praised the Bank of England’s governance structure as a model for tightening oversight

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent cast the confrontation with Iran as a two-front war on Thursday, telling President Trump that American economic strength has been as critical to the campaign as the military operation unfolding across the Persian Gulf.

Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the Trump administration was “jiu-jitsuing the Iranians” by “using their own oil against them.”

Thursday on Fox Business Network’s “Mornings with Maria,” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the Trump administration “may unsanction” about 140 million barrels of Iranian oil.

President Donald Trump has decided to delay his trip to China by “a month or so,” reportedly due to the Iran war.

President Donald Trump suggested on Sunday that he might delay his planned trip to China due to the Iran war, especially if China refuses to help secure the Strait of Hormuz against Iranian terror attacks on civilian tankers and cargo ships.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Friday that the U.S. Navy will “soon” begin escorting oil tankers through the Strait of Hormuz to protect them from Iranian terrorist attacks.

Republican Study Committee (RSC) and Congressional Real Estate Caucus members, led by Rep. Mark Alford (R-MO), are transmitting a letter Friday morning to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, urging the department to use existing authority to index capital gains calculations to inflation, arguing the change could be implemented administratively without requiring new legislation.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Wednesday the Trump administration plans to raise its across-the-board tariff rate to 15 percent this week, providing a timeline for an increase President Trump had announced but not yet implemented.

U.S. President Donald Trump has threatened to “cut off” all trade with Spain after the socialist-led country refused to allow the American military to use its bases to strike the Islamist regime in Iran during Operation Epic Fury.

Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) said President Donald Trump and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent had “wrecked this economy.”

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).

WASHINGTON–President Donald Trump touted low inflation on Friday while departing the White House en route to Fort Bragg with first lady Melania Trump.

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.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent shut down Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) during a House Financial Services Committee hearing this week as she tried to claim that housing inflation has worsened under the Trump administration.

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.

China’s state-run Global Times on Wednesday was delighted by the tiff between Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney and U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, urging Carney to prove his mettle by doubling down on the anti-American comments that Bessent claimed he had retracted.

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.