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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSenate confirms Scott Bessent as Treasury secretary
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The Senate confirmed Scott Bessent as Treasury secretary on Monday, elevating the hedge fund manager to the new administration’s top financial job as President Donald Trump forges ahead on an ambitious economic agenda.
The vote was 68-29.
As head of the Treasury, 62-year-old Bessent faces pressure to address the federal debt limit and work with congressional Republicans to extend Trump’s 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. He’ll also have to contend with Trump’s plans to enact tariffs on goods coming in from Mexico, Canada and China, which poses risks for the American economy.

in2herbs
(3,482 posts)flamingdem
(40,080 posts)way back. And he worked for Soros. They figured it could have been worse?
He wants a measured approach to tariffs supposedly.
Think. Again.
(21,382 posts)flamingdem
(40,080 posts)and according to Ron Wyden doesn't know what Medicaid is..
Think. Again.
(21,382 posts)Lisa Blunt Rochester, Delaware
Cory Booker, New Jersey
Maria Cantwell, Washington
Christopher Coons, Delaware
John Fetterman, Pennsylvania
Ruben Gallego, Arizona
Kirsten Gillibrand, New York
Margaret Hassan, New Hampshire
John Hickenlooper, Colorado
Timothy Kaine, Virginia
Mark Kelly, Arizona
Angus King, Maine
Gary Peters, Michigan
Jeanne Shaheen, New Hampshire
Elissa Slotkin, Michigan
Mark Warner, Virginia
yellow dahlia
(1,431 posts)
Think. Again.
(21,382 posts)yellow dahlia
(1,431 posts)the economy will fall apart.
I'm wondering which Dems voted yes - I think I'll look it up.
TheProle
(3,262 posts)Celerity
(47,960 posts)Blunt Rochester (D-DE) (surprised and disappointed)
Booker (D-NJ) (surprised and disappointed)
Cantwell (D-WA)
Coons (D-DE)
Fetterman (D-PA)
Gallego (D-AZ)
Gillibrand (D-NY) (surprised and disappointed)
Hassan (D-NH)
Hickenlooper (D-CO)
Kaine (D-VA)
Kelly (D-AZ)
King (I-ME)
Peters (D-MI)
Shaheen (D-NH)
Slotkin (D-MI)
Warner (D-VA)
Not Voting
Ossoff (D-GA)
Padilla (D-CA)
Wiz Imp
(3,748 posts)Sen. Maggie Hassan (N.H.)
Sen. Tim Kaine (Va.)
Sen. Gary Peters (Mich.)
Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (N.H.)
Sen. Elissa Slotkin (Mich.)
And only 16 who have voted NO on all nominees except Rubio.
Baldwin (D-WI)
Blumenthal (D-CT)
Cortez Masto (D-NV)
Duckworth (D-IL)
Heinrich (D-NM)
Hirono (D-HI)
Lujan (D-NM)
Markey (D-MA)
Murphy (D-CT)
Murray (D-WA)
Reed (D-RI)
Sanders (I-VT)
Schiff (D-CA)
Schumer (D-NY)
Van Hollen (D-MD)
Warren (D-MA)