President Donald Trump (R) was inaugurated for his second term as the 47th president of the United States on January 20, 2025. He serves with Vice President J.D. Vance (R), a former senator from Ohio.

A slate of President Trump’s Cabinet nominees have appeared before senators in recent weeks for key hearings on their road to ...

Days after his Senate confirmation, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has paid $12.5 million for a historic mansion in ...

The Senate has confirmed five members of President Donald Trump’s Cabinet since he assumed office on Jan. 20, with five more ...

Will the Senate GOP confirm controversial picks like Tulsi Gabbard and RFK Jr.? Here’s the hearings schedule and list of ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Tulsi Gabbard and Kash Patel testify before Senate committees on Capitol Hill on Thursday as urgency ...

Bessent received a bachelor's degree from Yale University in 1984. After graduating, Bessent worked at Brown Brothers Harriman and Kynikos Associates. [5] In 1991, Bessent began working at Soros Fund ...

President Trump already has twice the number of Cabinet secretaries confirmed than he did at this point in his first term, but Senate Republicans are poised to fall short of their goal of meeting the ...

The U.S. Senate voted 68-29 to confirm Scott Bessent as Treasury Secretary, making him the highest-ranking gay official in ...

Entering into this next presidential cycle there is a hot mix of scrutiny and excitement surrounding President-elect Donald Trump’s picks for Cabinet. It’s important to understand who these ...

On Monday, senators voted 68 to 29 to confirm billionaire hedge fund manager Scott Bessent as U.S. Treasury secretary, with ...

Trump has embraced the ultra wealthy as well as tariffs and other policies that could stoke the inflation he criticized as a ...