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Scott Kenneth Homer Bessent ( BESS-ənt; born August 21, 1962) is an American government official and former hedge fund manager serving since 2025 as the 79th United States secretary of the treasury. He was formerly a partner at Soros Fund Management (SFM) and founded Key Square Group, a global macro investment firm. Bessent graduated from Yale College in 1984. In 1991, he was hired by Soros Fund Management, eventually becoming the head of its London office. In this role, in September 1992, he was a leading member of the group that profited by $1 billion on Black Wednesday, the British Pound sterling crisis. He made another $1.2 billion profit for SFM in 2013 betting against the Japanese yen. After he left the Soros Fund in 2015, he established Key Square Group, a hedge fund. Bessent served as an economic advisor, fundraiser, and major donor for the Donald Trump 2024 presidential campaign. On November 22, 2024, President-elect Trump announced his nomination of Bessent for Treasury Secretary in the second Trump administration. Bessent was confirmed by the United States Senate on January 27, 2025, by a 68–29 vote, and sworn in as the 79th U.S. Treasury Secretary on January 28. Bessent is the second openly gay man to serve in the Cabinet of the United States (after Pete Buttigieg) and the sixth openly gay man to serve in a cabinet-level office (after Demetrios Marantis, Richard Grenell, Tyler Goodspeed, Pete Buttigieg, and Vince Micone). As the U.S. secretary of the treasury is fifth in the United States presidential line of succession, he is the highest-ranking openly LGBT person ever to serve in the federal government of the United States.

William John Pulte (born May 28, 1988) is an American businessman who has served as both the director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency and as the chairman of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac since 2025. Pulte is the Founder of Pulte Capital Partners (2011), an investment firm that focuses on home service businesses. In 2013, Pulte also founded The Blight Authority, a defunct nonprofit that clears what they consider to be blighted homes and trees, leaving vacant lots. He studied broadcast journalism at Northwestern University. Pulte is the grandson of William J. Pulte, the founder of PulteGroup, a residential home construction company. Amid a leadership dispute, Pulte was named to PulteGroup's board in 2016, serving for a four year term. Since 2019, he has used Twitter as a platform for philanthropic donations. In January 2025, president-elect Donald Trump named Pulte as his nominee for director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency. He was confirmed by the Senate in March.