Bessent

English Etymology en Proper noun s en. en Elisabeth Buchwald Trump says Scott Bessent no longer in the running for Fed chair w:CNN Business https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/05/business/scott-bessent-fed-chair 2025-08-05 Hassett said Monday on CNBC that Bessent is helping lead Trump’s search for Fed chair. https://web.archive.org/web/20250825164923/https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/05/business/scott-bessent-fed-chair en w:Robert Reich Why Trump built a staff of incompetent sycophants w:The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/aug/25/trump-staff-incompetent-sycophants 2025-08-25 Then there’s Billy Long, a former auctioneer and Republican congressman who Trump nominated and was confirmed less than two months ago to head the Internal Revenue Service, with “little background in tax policy beyond promoting a fraud-riddled tax credit”. Long has already been fired after clashing with the treasury secretary, Scott Bessent. Long was the sixth person to head the IRS this year. https://web.archive.org/web/20250825123306/https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/aug/25/trump-staff-incompetent-sycophants Statistics According to the 2010 United States Census, Bessent is the 30303rd most common surname in the United States, belonging to 772 individuals. Bessent is most common among White (70.34%) and Black/African American (24.87%) individuals.