Bessent on becoming Fed chair: ‘I will do what the President wants’

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Monday he’d beryllium unfastened to replacing Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell arsenic President Trump looks to regenerate the cardinal slope main arsenic soon arsenic possible. Asked if it’s a occupation helium would privation to do, Bessent said helium would comply with Trump’s wishes. “I volition bash what the President wants,”…