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Happy Birthday, @POTUS.
As America prepares to celebrate 250 years of freedom, strength, and exceptionalism, your America First leadership is exactly what this moment demands.
Here's to another year of Making America Great Again.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent
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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent
@SecScottBessent
79th United States Secretary of the Treasury
Joined February 2025
- President @realDonaldTrump continues to make the world safer, today reaching a historic peace deal with Iran. His leadership, along with his direct engagement with allies and adversaries alike, will be recorded in history books for centuries to come.
- Across the country, community bankers serve as the first line of defense in our financial infrastructure. In Houston, I spoke with more than a dozen bankers about how financial institutions must remain vigilant against illicit financial activity associated with the unlawful
- The @realDonaldTrump economy is creating a record number of private-sector jobs, fueled in large part by the historic Working Families Tax Cuts. Naysayers attempting to credit the World Cup can thank President Trump for bringing it back to America, just as he is bringing back
00:00 - Americans lose hundreds of billions of dollars to fraud each year. At @USTreasury, we follow the money, and we know financial institutions are often the first to see suspicious activity in real time. They need the tools to act quickly and share information that can help stop
00:00 - .@POTUS is creating the conditions for families and businesses to prosper. Our economic strategy rests on three distinct, but mutually reinforcing levers of tax, trade, and deregulation. Beneath each of these priorities is a layer that binds them all: the doctrine of energy
- Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent reposted
AMERICA: Foster Children are in all 50 states. GOVERNORS: Pledge to set up Fostering the Future Accounts in your State now. This is not a political issue. This is a national moral obligation.
- Thank you, @FLOTUS Melania Trump, for joining us at @USTreasury and for your leadership on behalf of America’s children, specifically foster youth. Through the partnership between Fostering the Future and @TrumpAccounts, we are helping ensure that foster youth have the same
- The Iranian regime will lose the zero-sum game it is playing. Any damage it inflicts on our allies in the Gulf will be paid for with funds extracted from Iranian Accounts. Any tolls paid to the Persian Gulf Strait Authority will be offset by funds extracted from their accounts.
- FISA is a critical tool that allows Treasury to stop terrorists from utilizing the financial system to carry out attacks against the United States and continues to be a critical component of our national and economic security. It is the most important tool we have to collect
- Through Economic Fury, the Treasury Department is disrupting the foreign procurement networks that support the Iranian military’s efforts to acquire weapons. Treasury has frozen the Iranian regime’s assets, severely disrupted its economy, and dismantled the Iranian war machine.Today, as part of Economic Fury, Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control sanctioned nine individuals and entities that have supported weapons procurement on behalf of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Ministry of Defense and Armed Forces Logistics. Treasury
