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 ...

Cue the inevitable cleanup. Both Bessent and White House press spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt quickly said that these accounts would be a "supplement" to Social Security, not a replacement for it.

President Donald Trump has reestablished the Presidential Fitness Test for American children. This test, a staple in schools ...

President Donald Trump has reinstated the Presidential Fitness Test, once taken by millions of schoolchildren but phased out under Obama ...

The Treasury secretary has a really strange way of convincing people it’s “ridiculous” to think the program is under threat.

President Donald Trump has announced a flurry of trade activity ahead of Friday's official start of his new tariffs regime — ...

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Wednesday framed the president’s new tax-deferred investment account as a "backdoor for privatizing Social Security." Secretary Bessent on Thursday clarified his ...

The Trump administration is launching a new private health tracking system that asks Americans to share their personal health ...

Democrats seized on the comment as a signal that Republicans want to privatize Social Security—an unpopular GOP idea that was floated 20 years ago and swiftly abandoned ...

Trump accounts, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said, would make “everyone a shareholder” in the success of the economy.

Donald Trump's Treasury Secretary, Scott Bessent, said he sees "Trump accounts" as "a backdoor for privatizing Social ...