Mission Maintain a strong economy and create economic and job opportunities by promoting the conditions that enable economic growth and stability at home and abroad, strengthen national security by combating threats and protecting the integrity of the financial system, and manage the U.S. Government’s finances and resources effectively.
The secretary of treasury is Jacob J. Lew . He was born on August 29, 1955 in New York . He became the U.S secretary of treasury in 2013.Jacob has been called "exceedingly meticulous" and "the most unassuming power broker in Washington" by The New York Times
The Department's FY 2014 Budget supports the critical work that Treasury is doing to ensure that the financial industry plays by new, safer rules, and to spur growth in the face of unacceptably high unemployment.
Though formally established as an executive department by the First Session of Congress in 1789, many functions of the Department of the Treasury were being carried out even before the signing of the Declaration of Independence thirteen years earlier. Over the decades, the functions of the Department have expanded and grown more sophisticated to meet the needs of a developing nation.