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In August 2025, the Office of Government Ethics alerted the Senate that Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent was delinquent in selling his holdings of North Dakota soybean farmland.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent divested his North Dakota soybean farmland holdings in December 2025 after requesting an extension.

This is the second time Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has failed to comply with divestment requirements for cabinet officials.

Scott Bessent's husband, John Freeman, is a former assistant district attorney in New York and later served as general counsel of Bessent Capital.

In 2025, after being nominated as Treasury Secretary, former hedge fund manager Scott Bessent reported having assets worth more than $700 million.

In July 2026, John Freeman, husband of Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, was appointed to the American Battle Monuments Commission.

In July 2026, after the reporting error was discovered, the JPMorgan stock was divested and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent paid a $200 late fee for the untimely reporting.

In 2025, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent failed to disclose at least $100,000 of his husband’s JPMorgan stock, which triggered a review by the Treasury Department’s Office of Inspector General.

Treasury Department ethics official Mark Vetter stated that the JPMorgan stock holding had been 'inadvertently reported' as cash.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent's initial 2025 financial disclosure form incorrectly listed his husband's JPMorgan stock holdings as cash in an undisclosed bank account.

In her daily news conferences, when discussing the U.S.-Mexico relationship, President Claudia Sheinbaum uses the motto “coordination without subordination.”

Ricardo Monreal is a Mexican lawmaker who leads President Claudia Sheinbaum’s coalition in Congress.

Following an incident in April 2026, U.S. prosecutors indicted a sitting Mexican governor from President Claudia Sheinbaum’s party on accusations of aiding cartels.

The U.S. government revoked the visas of political figures from Mexico's Morena party, including the son of former President Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador.

In response to the U.S. indictment of a Mexican governor from her party, President Claudia Sheinbaum refused to order his arrest but privately pressured him to resign.

When asked in September 2026 about the state of U.S.-Mexico relations, Mexico’s ambassador in Washington, Mr. Lazzeri, described it as a moment of “the deepest coordination.”

Since U.S. President Donald Trump took office, there has been a series of seven consecutive right-wing election victories in Latin America, leaving Mexico as one of the region's last leftist-run countries as of September 2026.

In April 2026, two C.I.A. officers died in a car crash during a drug lab operation in the Mexican state of Chihuahua.

The relationship between U.S. President Donald Trump and Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has developed over more than 20 conversations.

According to Mexican and U.S. officials, as of September 2026, the Mexican Navy interdicts nearly every boat in Mexican waters that U.S. intelligence identifies as carrying drug traffickers.