← Chronicle · Confirmation · January 28, 2025

Scott Bessent Confirmed as Secretary of the Treasury, 68–29

Senate vote: 68–29

Scott Bessent was confirmed by the Senate as Secretary of the Treasury on January 28, 2025, by a vote of 68–29. The former hedge-fund manager became the administration’s senior economic official in the cabinet.

The mission that started here is the Treasury portfolio this chronicle tracks under the Economy, Tariffs & Trade hub: tax policy, sanctions, debt management, and the financial side of the tariff program — the brief Bessent later carried into the Trump Accounts enrollment announcement paged on this site.

Sources: Senate confirmation record, January 28, 2025 (vote and date banked in this site’s research cluster A); Department of the Treasury.