Officials for the agency were notified of the planned cuts on the same day they learned that about 800 awards and contracts ...

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has a new plan in the fight to bring down historically high interest rates, and it’s got ...

In a desperately needed move this week, President Donald Trump fired Rohit Chopra, director of the Consumer Financial ...

The Trump-Musk ransacking of the federal government must stop. The courts offer one important way to apply the brake, says an administrative law scholar. The Washington Monthly is an independent voice ...

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is ordering a freeze to work at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, after being named ...

A newspaper report says new Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, the former hedge fund investor and SC native, has bought a home ...

The Treasury Department was accused of breaking federal law by giving Elon Musk’s team of government efficiency enforcers ...

Scott Bessent, the Treasury Secretary, has been tapped by President Trump to be acting director of the Consumer Financial ...

Here’s a look at how area members of Congress voted over the previous week. The House was in recess this week. Both it and the Senate are scheduled for legislative ...

LGBTQ groups overall are pleased to have the first gay U.S. Treasury secretary. But that doesn't mean they had uniform ...

The U.S. Senate confirmed billionaire investor Scott Bessent, of South Carolina, on Monday to serve as President Donald Trump ...

Newly minted Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is now the highest ranking openly LGBTQ official in American history. Bessent — ...