Trump Treasury Pick: Advisers signal support for Warsh, Bessent

President-elect Donald Trump‘s transition team is considering pairing up Kevin Warsha former Federal Reserve official, in the role of Treasury Secretary, with a hedge fund manager Scott Bessent as director of the White House’s National Economic Council, according to people with knowledge of the matter.

Bessent discussed the NEC and Treasury positions with Trump last week, according to people familiar with the matter. Warsh has been invited to Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club, where transition efforts are based, to interview the president-elect in the coming days, they said.