Scott Bessent
The Public Record
U.S. Secretary of the Treasury in the Trump administration; hedge-fund manager and founder of Key Square Group.
We will continue our effort to completely eradicate the cartels' ability to generate revenue, including their efforts to prey on elderly Americans through timeshare fraud.
The American people deserve better than this. People shouldn’t come to Washington to get rich, they should come to serve the American people.
I think we could go into a series of rate cuts here, starting with a 50 basis point rate cut in September.
If you look at any model, it suggests that we should probably be 150, 175 basis points lower.
I am going to start pushing for this single-stock trading ban, because it is the credibility of the House and the Senate, that you look at some of these eye-popping returns, whether it’s Representative Pelosi, Senator Wyden, every hedge…
Treasury, in close coordination with our law enforcement partners, is committed to a full-frontal assault on the cartels, targeting the leadership and revenue streams that enable their horrific crimes.
These cartels poison Americans with fentanyl and conduct human smuggling operations along our southwest border.
Under President Trump, the Treasury Department will continue to be relentless in its effort to put America First by targeting terrorist drug cartels.