CBS NewsTrump expected to select Scott Bessent for Treasury secretary, source says
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10% Center
- Reliability
30% ReliableFair
- Policy Leaning
10% Center
- Politician Portrayal
7% Positive
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Contributing sentiments towards policy:
62% : Trump has called Bessent a "nice-looking guy" and "one of the most brilliant men on Wall Street."47% : Bessent, like Trump, advocates tariffs, viewing them as a way to raise revenue and protect American industries.
40% : The founder of Connecticut-based hedge fund Key Square Group, the 62-year-old Bessent had been making a full-court press for the post to Trump, according to a source deeply involved in transition planning.
37% : Ric Grenell was acting director of national intelligence under Trump, but the Senate never confirmed him.
34% : Bessent joked on Fox News that he's in "violent agreement" with Trump on that.
*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.