disclosure

According to his financial disclosure, Bessent owns farmland in North Dakota that he leases to farmers for up to $1 million per year.

But critics pressed for more disclosure about the donor and the legal basis for accepting such a gift in the middle of a funding lapse.

It also said disclosure would hurt future settlement negotiations with other parties.

The identities of DHS officers, their salaries and their operations have long been withheld for security reasons and generally exempted from disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act.

That disclosure helped send bank stocks to their worst day since April, with investors worried that the events could collectively point to growing weakness in the economy, particularly among lower-income consumers.