United States Department of the Treasury

Also known as: United States Department of Treasury, U.S. Treasury Department, U.S. Department of the Treasury, US Treasury Department, US Treasury, Treasury Department, United States Treasury Department

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The United States Department of the Treasury (Treasury) serves as a key U.S. government agency involved in economic research, tax analysis, financial policy, and imposing sanctions on foreign entities threatening U.S. interests. Its economists, alongside the Joint Committee on Taxation, analyze income inequality data, and it employs researchers like Gerald Auten since 1987. The Office of Tax Analysis publishes working papers, such as Cronin, DeFilippes, and Fisher (2023) on imputing race/ethnicity for tax expenditures and Horowitz et al. (2017) on carbon tax methodology. Treasury conducts joint studies on service members' financial difficulties and participates in interagency efforts for JCPOA implementation with State, Energy Departments, and intelligence coordinated JCPOA process. In foreign policy, its Office of Foreign Assets Control issued licenses for sanctioned Russian oil and accused China of currency manipulation in 2019. Treasury's dominant role in the facts is sanctions enforcement, often with State Department, under executive orders like 13224, targeting Hezbollah leaders (Hassan Nasrallah in 1995, 2012, 2018), financiers (Al Qard al Hassan in 2007), operatives, and fronts; Houthi figures and networks (Chinese companies aiding Houthis in 2025); and others like Iran-Hezbollah funding estimates. It connects to entities like Hezbollah, Houthis, China, Iran, and personnel such as Elizabeth Rosenberg in terrorism sanctions.