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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent moves into military housing due to Iranian threats
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Bessent: 2 developments since Wed 11 Nov.
1File photo: Scott Bessent
Bessent is now one of several Trump administration officials to live on military bases due to safety concerns.
CBS News didn’t include a summary, so this is BBC News’s, from its report on the same story.3
Background: Scott Bessent
Scott Kenneth Homer Bessent is an American businessman and government official serving as the 79th United States secretary of the treasury since 2025. Bessent was a partner at Soros Fund Management (SFM) and founded Key Square Group, a global macro trading firm. He is the first openly gay person to lead the U.S. Treasury, becoming the highest-ranking LGBTQ government official in American history.4
The bigger story: Bessent
2 developments since Wed 11 Nov. 1 more since this one.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent moves into military housing due to Iranian threats
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- Bessent Has to Make Big Move Because of 'More Than Advanced' Threats From Iran
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The story so far
33 newsroomsCooling- Reports
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Cooling: well below its busiest stretch (2 in the last three hours, 3 in the three before).
First with it: The Daily Wire, 2 hr 59 min before anyone else.
Reported by 33 newsrooms.
Counted as one newsroom each, because they ran the same copy: CNA and The Daily Signal (the same headline); The West Australian, PerthNow (all Seven West Media).
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Reports a day, last 7 days
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| Fri | 0 |
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| Sun | 0 |
| Mon | 0 |
| Tue | 0 |
| Wed | 10 |
| Today | 31 |
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Photo: U.S. Department of the Treasury, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
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CBS News: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent moves into military housing due to Iranian threats
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BBC News: US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent relocated after alleged Iranian threats
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Background: “Scott Bessent”, Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0 (licence)
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