Top White House economic adviser Gary Cohn, a Wall Street banker who became a key architect of the 2017 tax overhaul and a bulwark against protectionist forces within the Trump administration, is resigning the post. “It has been an honor to serve my country and enact pro-growth economic policies to benefit the American people, in…
President Trump’s decision to impose tariffs on steel and aluminum imports puts his top economic adviser, Gary Cohn, who opposed the tariffs, in a difficult position. Cohn is rumored to have been mulling resigning for some time, but stayed to stop Trump from imposing high tariffs. Politico reports that Cohn had been lobbying Trump for…
Does the Trump administration have better taste in movies than we thought? According to Axios, among the many passages of Michael Wolff’s headline-making, soon-to-be-released “Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House” that may have angered its titular subject — whose lawyers today sent Wolff and his lawyers a cease-and-desist letter — is one concerning…
In a bipartisan phone call with Senators earlier this month, President Donald Trump’s top economic advisor lied about a bad connection to get Trump to stop talking, a Democratic senator who was on the call told CNN. Democratic Senator Tom Carper said that he and others were speaking with Cohn about the Republican-backed tax reform…
In a wide-ranging interview with CNBC, National Economic Council chairman Gary Cohn said that he was “really not upset” that the wealthy will be getting a tax cut as part of the Republican tax reform plan — just weeks after insisting that “The wealthy are not getting a tax cut under our plan.” When CNBC’s…
National Economic Council director Gary Cohn is so concerned about getting himself tied up in the probe of Russian involvement in the presidential election that he leaves the room whenever the subject of Russia comes up, Vanity Fair reported Wednesday. After an indictment against former campaign chairman Paul Manafort was revealed, “advisers in the West…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Trump is unlikely to pick economic adviser Gary Cohn as his nominee for Federal Reserve chairman because Cohn is playing a crucial role in the White House tax reform effort, a senior administration official said on Wednesday. “No decision has been made and no candidate has been ruled out but Gary’s…
Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen returned to the White House on Friday to have lunch with President Donald Trump’s top economic adviser, Gary Cohn, a White House official said, describing the meeting as “nothing out of the ordinary.” Yellen met with Trump on Thursday for an interview on her possible reappointment as chair of the…
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