WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate on Thursday confirmed John Ratcliffe as CIA director ... The U.S. Senate confirmed billionaire investor Scott Bessent on Monday to serve as President Donald Trump ...

joining Secretary of State Marco Rubio and CIA Director John Ratcliffe. The Senate will next vote Monday evening on Scott Bessent's confirmation as treasury secretary. Noem, a Trump ally who is in ...

Republicans hold a 53-47 majority in the Senate, but Thune has complained that Democrats are using procedural maneuvers to slow the approval of some of Trump's more controversial picks, including former Fox News host Pete Hegseth for defense secretary and vaccine skeptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to head the Department of Health and Human Services.

Trump Orders Pentagon to Pursue U.S. Iron Dome Missile Defense System Trump DOJ Fires Prosecutors Who Worked on Jack Smith Investigations Senate Confirms Scott Bessent as Trump’s Treasury ...

President Donald Trump chose from his most loyal supporters when he created his Cabinet and appointed others to key roles within his administration.

Bessent grew up in Little River with big dreams. He’s suddenly risen so high in national politics that few South Carolinians have ever gone higher.

Ratcliffe received a bachelor's degree from the University of Notre Dame in 1987, and a law degree from Southern Methodist University in 1989. Before being elected to Congress, Ratcliffe served as the mayor of Heath, Texas, from 2004 to 2012. He also ...

Hedge fund manager Scott Bessent — who has vowed to crack down on off-the-rails federal spending and help avert a “crushing $4 trillion tax hike” on Americans by year’s end — was

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Senate confirmed billionaire investor Scott Bessent ... before settling on Bessent as his nominee. He also mulled over billionaire investor John Paulson and Howard ...

The Senate voted Monday as Senate Republicans work to quickly install President Trump's picks for top administration posts.

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 Management (SFM), where he was the firm's head of ...