Converting Social Security into millions of individual investment accounts would end the program as we know it Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent set off a firestorm this week when he said that the ...

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent's recent comments about using Trump Accounts as a backdoor for privatizing Social Security ...

Bessent was more right the first time, only I would suggest tackling Social Security head on. If done right, private ...

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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is trying to walk back comments that Trump savings accounts for newborns could be a ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday placing tariffs on many U.S. trade partners — the next step in his trade agenda that will test the global economy and ...

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has been criticized by Democrats after he said the new Trump newborn accounts are a "backdoor way to privatize Social Security." ...

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The pushback was so fierce that Bessent backpeddled immediately, both on cable news and social media. The Trump Accounts, he told CNBC, would be a “supplement to Social Security ...

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In a way, it is a backdoor for privatizing Social Security,” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said, sparking political ...

The Social Security programme has long been known as the “third rail” in American politics, after the electrified third rail ...