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Michael Faulkender
This infobox is outdated: Treasury no longer lists Michael Faulkender as Scott Bessent’s deputy. The department’s current officials page lists Francis Brooke as performing the delegable duties of Deputy Secretary of the Treasury.
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The article’s infobox presents Michael Faulkender as the current deputy to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. But the Treasury Department’s current officials page lists "Deputy Secretary of the Treasury (PDO) | Francis Brooke". Treasury also announced on April 28, 2026 that "Francis Brooke will perform the delegable duties of Deputy Secretary of the Treasury."
So while Faulkender was confirmed as deputy in March 2025, the article’s current-tense infobox entry is no longer accurate as of the Treasury Department’s latest published leadership information.
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- Officials | U.S. Department of the Treasury
Officials page lists: “Deputy Secretary of the Treasury (PDO) Francis Brooke.”
- Treasury Department Announces New Appointments | U.S. Department of the Treasury
On April 28, 2026, Treasury announced: “Francis Brooke will perform the delegable duties of Deputy Secretary of the Treasury.”
He proposed a three-point economic plan for Trump modeled on Abenomics (lower deficit, monetary easing, and fiscal stimulus).
This misstates Bessent’s well-known “3-3-3” plan. Reporting on his proposal says it targeted a 3% deficit, 3% GDP growth, and 3 million more barrels of daily energy production—not “lower deficit, monetary easing, and fiscal stimulus.”
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The sentence inaccurately describes the contents of Bessent’s proposed economic plan. Coverage of Bessent’s "3-3-3" plan says his three goals were:
- cut the budget deficit to 3% of GDP,
- achieve 3% annual GDP growth, and
- increase U.S. energy production by 3 million barrels per day.
Fox Business explicitly explains that Bessent modeled the plan on Shinzo Abe’s "three arrows," and then separately describes Abe’s program as involving aggressive monetary policy, fiscal stimulus, and structural reforms. In other words, the article appears to have substituted the components of Abenomics for the components of Bessent’s own plan.
That makes the quoted sentence factually wrong: Bessent’s plan was inspired by Abenomics, but its three points were not “lower deficit, monetary easing, and fiscal stimulus.”
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- Scott Bessent's 3-3-3 plan: what to know | Fox Business
Bessent’s plan would involve cutting the budget deficit to 3% of GDP by 2028, boosting GDP growth to 3% through deregulation and other pro-growth policies, and increasing U.S. energy production by an additional 3 million barrels of oil per day. The article then separately says Abe’s plan featured aggressive monetary policy, fiscal stimulus and structural reforms.
- What Trump's Treasury secretary has planned for the economy | Axios
Axios described Bessent’s “3/3/3” approach as cutting the budget deficit to 3% of GDP, achieving 3% annual growth, and increasing domestic oil production by 3 million barrels per day.