--- title: "Scott Bessent: everything in the record, dated and linked" description: "Scott Bessent, Secretary of the Treasury. Every dated statement and action, linked to its source, plus live headlines naming them." canonical: https://monitor.paciva.ai/person-scott-bessent source: AI News Monitor publisher: Paciva license: CC BY 4.0 updated: 2026-11-11T12:27:15.376Z keywords: Scott Bessent, Scott Bessent AI, Scott Bessent quotes, Scott Bessent statements, Scott Bessent on AI, what Scott Bessent said about AI, AI leaders, AI news --- > Scott Bessent, Secretary of the Treasury. Every dated statement and action, linked to its source, plus live headlines naming them. Read on the web: https://monitor.paciva.ai/person-scott-bessent The record behind this page is public and citable. Every figure has a dated row behind it, and the rows are at https://monitor.paciva.ai/api/ledger # Scott Bessent [Image credit](https://monitor.paciva.ai/about#credit-scott-bessent) Secretary of the Treasury · United States Department of the Treasury ## Why now No headline this week names Scott Bessent. ## What they said 1 dated item: statements, actions and media appearances by Scott Bessent, linked to their sources and ordered newest first. - Sep 4, 2026 In the record "Reported by Reuters to lead the US side of a mid-September US-China AI safety dialogue" [Safety & Risk](https://monitor.paciva.ai/topic-safety) · [Reuters](https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/us-china-gear-up-mid-september-ai-safety-dialogue-2026-09-04/) [Correct this record](https://monitor.paciva.ai/notes?skind=correction&sctx=Scott%20Bessent#suggest) ## Where they are named ## Stories naming Scott Bessent ## Nothing on file What a filing or a published statement says about money, employment or affiliation. Each row states the relationship, the date it is filed as of, and the document it comes from. Nothing here says why anyone did anything. No interest on file for Scott Bessent. The Monitor records a disclosed interest only where a filing or the person's own published statement states one. An empty list means none has been recorded, not that none exists. Every political contribution and lobbying registration on this site is also listed together in [the ledger](https://monitor.paciva.ai/#ledger). ## Compare Scott Bessent with someone else Pick a second person and read both records in date order, on one screen.