#Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent tried to spin the pause as part of #Trump’s strategy & not a capitulation, saying that the #tariffs had worked to get some of #China’s closest neighbors to seek deals with the #UnitedStates [prove it Bessent]. “Do not retaliate, & you will be rewarded,” he said.
Isn’t there a big selloff in US Treasury bonds ongoing right now? This is definitely what Putin wants:
"US adding a tax to foreign holders of American income assets such as US Treasures is something you'd do if you wanted to destroy USD reserve currency status.”
These intimate details about the personal lives of people who live in the #UnitedStates are held in disconnected #data systems across the federal govt—some at #Treasury, some at the #SocialSecurity Admin & some at the Dept of #Education, among other agencies.
The #Trump admin is now trying to connect the dots of that disparate #information.
Treasury's OCC Says Hackers Had Access to 150k Emails
https://www.securityweek.com/treasurys-occ-says-hackers-had-access-to-150000-emails/
The US #Treasury’s #OCC disclosed an undetected major email breach for over a year
https://securityaffairs.com/176373/data-breach/the-us-treasurys-occ-disclosed-an-undetected-major-email-breach-for-over-a-year.html
#securityaffairs #hacking
The order was the latest admin victory in #SCOTUS in a case arising from #Trump’s blitz of executive orders. Like others, though, it was technical & tentative. The justices said their order would remain in place while the case moved forward.
The case concerned a preliminary injunction issued last month by a federal judge in California that ordered the admin to reinstate >16k probationary employees it had fired from the #Pentagon, the #Treasury, & the #Agriculture, #Energy, #VA & #Interior Depts.
WTF
#Musk's #DOGE team can access government #data for now, appeals court rules
A divided federal appeals court set aside a court order that had blocked the government downsizing team created by #Trump & led by #ElonMusk from seizing sensitive data from the #Treasury Department, #Education Department & Office of Personnel Management [#OPM].
#law #InfoSec #NationalSecurity #Privacy #AbuseOfPower
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/musks-doge-team-can-access-government-data-now-appeals-court-rules-2025-04-07/
What the fuck were you thinking, Scott Bessent?! You’ve destroyed your reputation in six weeks! Six fucking weeks! LOL, motherfucker!
Top Trump Official So Freaked Out by Tariffs, He Wants to Quit | The New Republic
https://newrepublic.com/post/193634/donald-trump-treasury-scott-bessent-tariffs-quit
Secretary of #Gaslighting, er, #Treasury #Bessent says the #TrumpCrash that’s destroyed $6.4T in investments in 2 days is just a “Magnificent 7” (AAPL, GOOG, MSFT, AMZN, META, NVDA, TSLA) problem.
ORLY? Then explain the bloodbath in the other 493 #SP500 stocks.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/treasurys-bessent-market-drop-mag-185141328.html
“While the #Treasurymarket and the #USdollar have so far held up relatively well, further reductions in countries’ #US #debt holdings could push #Treasury #yields higher, weaken the #dollar, and threaten the stability of the #international #financialsystem” www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/i...
Will the World Keep Buying US ...
#Secy. #Scott #Bessent #treasury #Dep.
(If I am not wrong this guy is one at the top of the #Heritage #foundation... the people that create #project #2025)
Recommend to the #Nations of the #World
(to which Trump has imposed #Tariff)
to
'Not retaliate ... Just Wait '
... 
are this People for Real OR Just Stupid ?
The #World Will Retaliate Every Cent of Tariff Trump imposed.
and the 'people' will boycott all Americans product tariff or not.
That ofcl, #GaryShapley, was recently appointed to dpty chief of the #IRS’s #criminal division & to an “unprecedented” senior advisory role at the #Treasury Dept, he wrote to colleagues in a recent email…— giving #political appointees a direct line to #tax investigations for the first time since #Nixon.
#Trump’s WH budget office has sought to understand the potential cost to maintain #Greenland if it were acquired…. They are also attempting to estimate what #revenue the #US #Treasury could gain from Greenland’s #NaturalResources.
…Trump has said repeatedly that the US will “get” Greenland.
“100%,” he told NBC News on Sat. Asked whether it would involve #force, he said that there is a “good possibility that we could do it without #military force” but that “I don’t take anything off the table.”
Anybody else see the "Maralago Accords " as extortion on a global scale??
*in a NY mafioso accent:
"Oh, ya wanna do bidness with the US?? You're gonna need to pay for protection"
Judge Amy Berman Jackson in the National #Treasury Employees v. #RussVought (acting director of CFPB) ruled that the attempt to dismantle #CFPB is likely unlawful, & the recent claims by the #Trump admin that the agency was still performing its statutorily mandated duties was "nothing more than window dressing."
As such she ordered a preliminary injunction.
#law #ConsumerProtection #AbuseOfPower #Trump
https://ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show_public_doc?2025cv0381-87
![In sum, the Court cannot look away or the CFPB will be dissolved and dismantled completely in approximately thirty days, well before this lawsuit has come to its conclusion. For all of the reasons set forth above, the Court will GRANT [Dkt. # 10] plaintiffs' motion and issue a preliminary injunction that maintains the agency's existence until this case has been resolved on the merits, reinstating and preserving the agency's contracts, work force, data, and operational capacity, and protecting and facilitating the employees' ability to perform statutorily required activities. The Court is aware of the modifications the plaintiffs have made to their proposed order, as well as the objections lodged by the defendants to previous iterations of the proposed order, and it is mindful that its order must be sufficiently specific to be enforceable, while also broad enough to afford the agency and its leadership the discretion they are accorded under the statute when carrying out their regulatory, enforcement, and supervisory responsibilities.](https://s3.masto.ai/media_attachments/files/114/242/098/939/614/022/original/6844bc004d4f87fa.png "In sum, the Court cannot look away or the CFPB will be dissolved and dismantled completely in approximately thirty days, well before this lawsuit has come to its conclusion. For all of the reasons set forth above, the Court will GRANT [Dkt. # 10] plaintiffs' motion and issue a preliminary injunction that maintains the agency's existence until this case has been resolved on the merits, reinstating and preserving the agency's contracts, work force, data, and operational capacity, and protecting and facilitating the employees' ability to perform statutorily required activities. The Court is aware of the modifications the plaintiffs have made to their proposed order, as well as the objections lodged by the defendants to previous iterations of the proposed order, and it is mindful that its order must be sufficiently specific to be enforceable, while also broad enough to afford the agency and its leadership the discretion they are accorded under the statute when carrying out their regulatory, enforcement, and supervisory responsibilities.")
#Treasury Secy #ScottBessent has been spearheading negotiations on the mineral deal. In an interview…, he said the #US had "passed along a completed document for the economic partnership….”
#Trump has said a #minerals deal will help secure a peace agreement by giving the United States a financial stake in Ukraine's future. He also sees it as America's way of earning back…[the #aid] it has given to #Ukraine…. Most of the aid funds were spent in the US.
Inside DOGE’s Plan to Invade the Treasury—and Throttle USAID
Court filings show that from the earliest days of the 2nd #Trump administration, Elon Musk’s DOGE had a plan to infiltrate US Treasury payment systems—and turn them against USAID.
https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-doge-plan-treasury-usaid/
"reveal the extent of #DOGE penetration into the most sensitive systems at the #Treasury...
this access was in service of the admn’s plans to target #USAID."
"Treasury Department is set to lay off a ‘substantial’ number of employees, official says.'
“These plans will be tailored for each bureau, and in many cases will require separations of substantial numbers of employees through reductions in force (RIFs).'
The federal govt is being ransacked for #privatization. If Musk's DOGE isn't stopped soon, the damage may be permanent.
#Resist #Treasury #DOGE #Musk #Coup #USPol
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/26/treasury-department-is-set-to-lay-off-a-substantial-number-of-employees-official-says.html
