Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is trying to walk back comments that Trump savings accounts for newborns could be a ...

The Treasury Secretary has described new savings account for young Americans as a "backdoor for privatizing Social Security." ...

“In a way, it is a backdoor for privatizing Social Security,” Bessent said at a Breitbart event in Washington, Politico reported. “If, all of a sudden, these accounts grow and you have in the hundreds ...

Trump accounts, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said, would make “everyone a shareholder” in the success of the economy.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Wednesday described the tax bill President Donald Trump signed into law this month as a way of eventually privatizing Social Security.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said that the Trump administration was committted to protecting Social Security hours after ...

The Treasury secretary has a really strange way of convincing people it’s “ridiculous” to think the program is under threat.

During his remarks in a virtual press call today, Senator Ron Wyden berated Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent for his comments ...

The pushback was so fierce that Bessent backpeddled immediately, both on cable news and social media. The Trump Accounts, he ...

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent's recent comments about using Trump Accounts as a backdoor for privatizing Social Security ...

Social Security turns 90 this month, but the trust fund could be dead by 2033. Despite myths, benefits won't disappear—but ...

Democrats seized on the comment as a signal that Republicans want to privatize Social Security—an unpopular GOP idea that was ...