Meet the top 4 candidates Trump is considering for Secretary of the Treasury

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

70% : Trump already announced six of the people he wants to lead the 15 executive departments, including Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for the Department of Health and Human Services and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio for the State Department.
69% : Axios reported that Trump praised Warsh as a "really handsome guy" when the two met in 2017 at the White House.
59% : His involvement emerged early last week when Reuters reported that the founder of macro investment firm Key Square Capital Management had been meeting with Trump at the Mar-a-Lago resort.
58% : He's been a friend of the president-elect for decades, repeatedly holding fundraisers for Trump.
56% : Rowan has kept a relatively low profile on his views about government policy, though he recently voiced concerns that the Fed could overstimulate the economy with interest rate cuts.
53% : But the Times also wrote that Trump has been telling his staff that he's impressed with Rowan, who Bloomberg estimates to be worth $10.9 billion.
52% : The Journal, citing people familiar with the matter, reported that while the billionaire's aides are in touch with Trump, Rowan isn't actively trying to secure the Treasury Secretary role and hasn't spoken to Trump personally about such a position.
52% : He wrote an opinion column just after the election, praising Trump for a stock market rally after his win and knocking 23 Nobel Prize-winning economists for predicting that the president-elect's agenda would be "counterproductive.
46% : Here are the top picks Trump is reportedly now considering for Secretary of the Treasury.
39% : Lutnick has also said that under Trump, corporate taxes would be raised for US giants like Apple and Tesla.
37% : That's broadly in line with how Trump has framed his Cabinet picks, as key movers who will upset the status quo and push fresh reform.
32% : Rowan has said that US economic concerns must be fixed by what he called "wholesale change," which he said Trump and his new administration would bring.
30% : With Trump seemingly still unsure over his choice, it's also possible that another candidate may emerge.
22% : Trump had been floating Warsh that year as a frontrunner for Fed chair.
18% : Bessent has been vocal in his support for Trump, telling Breitbart in August that Vice President Kamala Harris would have crashed the economy if she was president.

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