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 ...

Scott Bessent will lead President Donald Trump's financial agenda as treasury secretary. Bessent, a billionaire hedge fund manager, was confirmed in a 68 to 29 U.S. Senate vote on Monday and sworn ...

“Scott Bessent brings a wealth of private-sector experience in the economy and markets to his new role, as well as a concern for the needs of working Americans,” Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S ...

Newly minted Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is now the highest ranking openly LGBTQ official in American history. Bessent — who was nominated by President Donald Trump shortly after his election — ...

Scott Bessent, U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's nominee to be secretary of treasury, speaks next to his husband John Freeman, on the day he testifies during a Senate Committee on Finance ...

Bessent — who was nominated by President ... He is married to former prosecutor John Freeman, with whom he has two children, according to Axios. “In a certain geographic region at a certain ...