Investor Scott Bessent has spent his career in finance, working for macro investment billionaire George Soros and noted short seller Jim Chanos, as well as running his own hedge fund. Bessent will take his investing knowledge down a rarefied career path that only a few other prominent Wall Street luminaries have followed: running the U.

Here's what to know about the Treasury secretary pick Bessent, who beat out a crowded field including former Fed official Kevin Warsh and billionaire Marc Rowan.

WASHINGTON -- Trump says he will nominate former George Soros money manager Scott Bessent to lead the Treasury Department.