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Scott Bessent fielded sharp questions Thursday at his confirmation hearing from Democrats and Republicans on tax policy, tariffs, China, Russia sanctions and the IRS tax filing system. Bessent ...
The U.S. already imposes heavy sanctions on Russia but still did approximately $3.5 billion in trade last year ...
U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent: "We don't trade with Russia and Belarus because of sanctions." Former U.S. Representative Adam Kinzinger, a Republican from Illinois, wrote on X ...
Russia has pushed for one of its top banks ... Ukraine would be one of the main preconditions to amend or lift sanctions.” Bessent also told MacCallum he hopes the White House and Kyiv will ...
Vice President JD Vance said today that the U.S. would “walk away” from negotiations to end the war in Ukraine unless both ...
Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal announced that he had agreed with US Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent to start work on a ...
Two operatives, Afghani businessmen Hushang Ghairat and Sohrab Ghairat — brothers who are based in Russia — have assisted ... Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said in a statement.
WASHINGTON, April 2 (Reuters) - The United States imposed sanctions on Wednesday on Russia-based people and ... said Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. “Today’s action underscores our ...
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has played a balancing act trying to reassure nervous investors that the U.S. would maintain ...
"The Houthis remain reliant on Sa'id al-Jamal and his network to procure critical goods to supply the group's terrorist war machine," Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said in a statement.
Bessent named both men in a video statement released Monday – what would have been Nicholas Quets’ 32nd birthday – that announced Treasury Department sanctions against six individuals and ...