{"id":22234,"date":"2025-01-28T23:14:05","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T23:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=22234"},"modified":"2025-01-28T23:15:33","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T23:15:33","slug":"senate-confirms-scott-bessent-as-trumps-treasury-secretary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=22234","title":{"rendered":"Senate Confirms Scott Bessent As Trump\u2019s Treasury Secretary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump\u2019s top economic candidate, Scott Bessent, was confirmed on Monday to head the Department of the Treasury, putting him in charge of implementing the president\u2019s ambitious economic program.<\/p>\n<p>Senators voted 68-29 on Bessent\u2019s nomination. The Democratic caucus approved confirmation, and 16 members voted for it. Three Democrats abstained from voting.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=22236\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-22225 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Readmore-1-1-1-1-4.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"67\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump\u2019s top economic candidate, Scott Bessent, was confirmed on Monday to head the Department of the Treasury, putting him in charge of implementing the president\u2019s ambitious economic program. Senators voted 68-29 on Bessent\u2019s nomination. The Democratic caucus approved confirmation, and 16 members voted for it. Three Democrats abstained from voting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22234"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22234"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22238,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22234\/revisions\/22238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}