{"id":29595,"date":"2025-01-03T04:43:40","date_gmt":"2025-01-03T04:43:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/03\/trump-taps-team-to-work-with-us-treasury-nominee-scott-bessent\/"},"modified":"2025-01-03T04:43:40","modified_gmt":"2025-01-03T04:43:40","slug":"trump-taps-team-to-work-with-us-treasury-nominee-scott-bessent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/03\/trump-taps-team-to-work-with-us-treasury-nominee-scott-bessent\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump taps team to work with US Treasury nominee Scott Bessent"},"content":{"rendered":"

President-elect Trump<\/a> announced several appointments to his administration Thursday, including the team that will work with his nominee for the U.S. Treasury, Scott Bessent.<\/p>\n

In a post on Truth Social, Trump announced that Ken Kies will serve as assistant secretary for tax policy.<\/p>\n

Kies, who has worked as a tax lawyer for 47 years, has served as the chief of staff for the Joint Committee on Taxation<\/a> and the chief Republican tax counsel of the House Ways and Means Committee.<\/p>\n

Also joining the team is Alexandra Preate, who Trump appointed as senior counsel to the secretary.<\/p>\n

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Trump said Preate is an accomplished executive in public relations.<\/p>\n

Trump appointed Hunter McMaster to serve as the director of policy planning and Daniel Katz was appointed to serve as chief of staff.<\/p>\n

Katz, Trump wrote, is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a graduate of Yale. Katz also served as a senior adviser at the Treasury Department.<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s appointment as deputy chief of staff in the Treasury Department is Samantha Schwab, who worked in the White House<\/a> Office of Legislative Affairs during the president-elect\u2019s first term.<\/p>\n

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“All of them are incredible, hardworking Patriots, who will work tirelessly to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN,” Trump said of the team.<\/p>\n

In addition to the Treasury Department appointments, Trump announced that Benjamin Leon James will serve as the next U.S. ambassador to Spain.<\/p>\n

“Benjamin is a highly successful entrepreneur, equestrian, and philanthropist. He came to the U.S. from Communist Cuba at 16-years-old, with only five dollars in his pocket, and proceeded to build his company, Leon Medical Centers, into an incredible business,” Trump wrote.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“He has helped support many worthy causes, like La Liga Contra el Cancer, and important Medical Research at Johns Hopkins and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.”<\/p>\n

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Trump also appointed Joe Popolo to serve as the next U.S. ambassador to the Netherlands.<\/p>\n

Popolo helped transform the Freeman Company into what Trump called “the world\u2019s leading live event brand experience company.”<\/p>\n

Popolo also serves as founder and CEO of Charles & Potomac Capital, LLC; the chairman of the board of Pinnacle Live, LLC; and, as a board member of Ondas Holdings.<\/p>\n

“Joe is an E&Y Entrepreneur of the Year Award winner, and also a recipient of the Dallas Business Journal\u2019s Most Admired CEO Award,” Trump wrote. “He is a proud graduate of Boston College, a member of their Board of Regents, and also, a Patron of the Arts in the Vatican Museum.”<\/p>\n

Trump also appointed Cora Alvi to serve as his deputy chief of staff.<\/p>\n

Alvi, Trump wrote, most recently worked as the national deputy finance director for Donald J. Trump for President Inc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

President-elect Trump announced several appointments to his administration Thursday, including the team that will work with his nominee for the U.S. Treasury, Scott Bessent. In a post on Truth Social, Trump announced that Ken Kies will serve as assistant secretary for tax policy. Kies, who has worked as a tax lawyer for 47 years, has … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29595\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}