US Treasury Secretary Confirms Fort Knox Gold Stockpile Remains Intact

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told Fox News host Jesse Watters that the gold stored at Fort Knox is fully present and accounted for. The latest Treasury ledger lists exactly 147,341,858.382 fine troy ounces of gold in the Kentucky vault, roughly half of the United States' total government‑owned bullion, which the secretary valued at over $1 trillion.

Bessent noted that while he has not personally entered the vault, members of his staff and the U.S. Treasurer have visited. The figure comes from a live federal data series maintained by the Treasury’s Bureau of the Fiscal Service and reported by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, with the most recent update on July 7, 2026. No new public inspection was announced, and the vault remains closed to visitors except for limited audits.

The announcement reiterates that Fort Knox continues to hold the world’s largest national gold reserve, with the total gold holdings across all U.S. depositories now exceeding a trillion dollars in market value.