How Scott Bessent Straddles MAGA World and Wall Street

This is Washington Edition, the newsletter about money, power and politics in the nation’s capital. Today, senior correspondent Saleha Mohsin reviews Scott Bessent’s journey to being nominated as Treasury secretary. Sign up here and follow us at @bpolitics. Email our editors here.

Scott Bessent is about to go from being someone no one has heard of — to put it in Donald Trump’s words — to sitting through several hours of a very public review of his credentials.