Treasury Sec. Scott Bessent Bans Migrants on Welfare from Sending Cash Back Home
- Newsrooms
- 34
- Last 3 hours
- 1 report
- Momentum
- Steady
0 in the 3 before
Cooling
Reports per hour, last 24 hours
How the coverage splits
Against the past week
More newsrooms than 99% of the past week’s 4251 stories, and number 13 of 2000 in News.Part of a bigger story
Scott Bessent: 3 developments since Wed 11 Nov.
1Treasury Sec. Scott Bessent is banning migrants who are on government assistance from sending any U.S. dollars outside the country.
In Breitbart’s words.2
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.3
The bigger story: Scott Bessent
3 developments since Wed 11 Nov. 2 more since this one.
Treasury Sec. Scott Bessent Bans Migrants on Welfare from Sending Cash Back Home
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- Bessent Has to Make Big Move Because of 'More Than Advanced' Threats From Iran
1 newsroom. Linked by Bessent, Iran, advance, threat
- ‘Unprecedented’ for Treasury secretary to leave home over Iranian threat: Joe Concha
1 newsroom. Linked by Treasury, iranian, threat
The story so far
34 newsroomsCooling- Reports
- 43
- Newsrooms and sources
- 34
- Last 3 hours
- 1
Cooling: well below its busiest stretch (1 in the last three hours, 0 in the three before).
First with it: The Daily Wire, 2 hr 59 min before anyone else.
Reported by 34 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).
The numbers behind it
How it spread, where it’s heading and where the coverage is from
Reports a day, last 7 days
| Day | Reports |
|---|---|
| Sat | 0 |
| Sun | 0 |
| Mon | 0 |
| Tue | 0 |
| Wed | 11 |
| Thu | 30 |
| Today | 2 |
