“This shifts the negotiating dynamic,” Stephen Olson, a former U.S. trade negotiator, told Bloomberg. “Many countries will ...

President Donald Trump appeared to acknowledge over the weekend that tariffs function as a tax ultimately paid by American ...

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent downplayed the U.S. credit downgrade as a "lagging indicator" of economic and fiscal ...

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent spoke with CNN's Jake Tapper on "State of the Union" after Moody downgraded the United States credit score.

Trump and his aides have repeatedly shifted their stance on tariffs in the weeks since the president’s “Liberation Day” ...

Robert Goulder comments on whether tariffs are hidden taxes that should be routinely disclosed to retail consumers.

NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with David Wessel, director of the Hutchins Center at the Brookings Institution, about America's federal debt, which is at $36 trillion and growing.

President Donald Trump is hoping separate phone calls with Russian leader Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr ...

In an interview Sunday morning with NBC News' "Meet the Press," Bessent said President Donald Trump's so-called "liberation day" tariffs - most of which were suspended for 90 days - may be reimposed ...

Bessent told CNN's "State of the Union" May 18 that he spoke with Walmart CEO Doug McMillon the day before, when Trump told the company on Truth Social that they should "' EAT THE TARIFFS ," and not ...

Treasury Secretary Bessent told NBC that if nations don't want to negotiate with the US, then their tariffs will "spring back ...

The United States may impose regional tariffs rather than issue blanket ones as a deadline approaches for racing a global ...