Spotted on Capitol Hill: Auburn Basketball Coach Bruce Pearl, fresh off Saturday’s Final Four appearance.

Treasury Sec. Scott Bessent to lawmakers just now on a U.S. digital currency: "We believe that digital assets belong in the private sector and my personal view is that having a central bank digital currency is a sign of weakness, not strength."

Fed Chair Jay Powell on what his “gut” is saying about the economy: “My gut tells me that uncertainty about the pace of the economy is extremely elevated and that the downside risks have increased….the risks of higher unemployment and higher inflation have risen. But they

Great morning with the Fox News team at the 2025 Washington ACLI Challenge. Strong second place finish for the squad!

Treasury Sec. Scott Bessent just left Senate Majority Leader John Thune’s office after a meeting on reconciliation bill. Asked by FOX Business about Elon Musk calling the GOP legislation a “disgusting abomination”, Bessent tells me he thinks, “it’s one, big beautiful bill.”

Schumer and Senate Dems apparently out with a new line of messaging, this one with the catchphrase “Trump is not a king.” “Donald Trump sees himself as a king more than a President. Trump is not a king…we all know Donald Trump is a would-be dictator,” Schumer says.

SCHUMER tells me “I’m not going to engage in hypotheticals,” when asked about possibly helping Trump / Republicans to scrap debt limit. Was an area of rare bipartisan agreement this week between Trump and Elizabeth Warren who both want to get rid of it.

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell here on Capitol Hill after a meeting in Majority Whip John Barrasso’s office. Seen here talking to North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis. No answer from Goodell when asked what he was in town for.

Quite the tense scene here at House Ways & Means hearing with Treasury Sec. Scott Bessent. Rep. Jimmy Gomez (D-CA): “How are you doing…I was just curious because Elon Musk body checked you at the White House…?” Bessent: “You believe what you read on Breitbart is what this is

Treasury Sec. Scott Bessent to FOX Business just now about his busy week: “it’s the nature of the job.” On multiple run-in’s with Democrats across 3 hearings this week: “They seem to all have the same talking points, they're well organized but I'm not going to speak to their

Democrats reacting to this now on Capitol Hill when asked about it: Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ): “Detained by this administration for doing his job. They're throwing him out of a government building…throwing a US senator out by force…I think it's unprecedented...it’s

Wild scene here as House Speaker Mike Johnson gaggles after the removal of California Sen. Alex Padilla from a DHS event. Johnson calls Padilla’s actions “wildly inappropriate…they have to restrain someone who is engaging that kind of behavior…it is beneath a U.S. senator.”

🚨Latest for FOX Business: Senate Banking Republicans led by Tim Scott wrote a letter to Fed Chair Jerome Powell ahead of hearing tomorrow. Powell expected to be pressed by GOP lawmakers on upgrades to Fed HQ + lots of Q’s expected on tariffs. foxbusiness.com/politics/powel…

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) to FOX Business on Zohran Mamdani’s win last night in NYC: “I am delighted…[he] made it clear that the role of government is to be there to serve the people, not serve the billionaires…I give him all the applause I can.”

Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-ND) was more skeptical, telling us: “I’m glad I don’t live there…it makes a lot of freedom-loving Americans and capitalists think twice about NYC…it’s a sad state of affairs to think one of our biggest cities in the country has decided to turn socialist.”

Vice President JD Vance just arrived here on Capitol Hill as Republicans attempt to pass the One Big Beautiful Bill.

I asked Schumer if he was trying to irritate Trump by having the bill renamed. “I didn't even think of President Trump. I thought of the truth. This is not a beautiful bill. Anyone who loses their health insurance doesn't think it's beautiful,” he said.

Senate Banking Committee Ranking Member Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) tells me about President Trump possibly firing Fed Chair Jay Powell: "To fire Jerome Powell will crash our markets...undermines our entire financial system and it makes us the laughing stock around the world.”

Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries to FOX Business on Fed Chair Powell: “…Chairman Powell…has done a good job on behalf of the American people…Donald Trump will continue his efforts working to fire Chairman Powell to crash the American economy.”