Sentences with phrase «economic council director»

Nothing came of it, but he was welcomed to the White House by then - National Economic Council director Larry Summers, who respectfully heard him out.

On Wednesday, September 27, 2017 the «Group of Six» consisting of Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady and National Economic Council Director Gary Cohn will release a broad tax reform outline.

Now, ex-Goldman executives populate the top echelons of the Trump administration and two of them, National Economic Council Director Gary Cohn and Treasury Secretary nominee Steven Mnuchin, are slated to be the point men on the Dodd - Frank rollback.

Within the White House, there is division — with a contingent led by top strategist Steve Bannon in favor, and National Economic Council director Gary Cohn and Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin opposed — according to a senior administration official.

Gary Cohn, after serving in the Trump administration since 2017, announced Tuesday he planned to resign as White House National Economic Council director...

Trump's firing of Secretary of State Rex Tillerson — and the departure of National Economic Council Director Gary Cohn, as well as one of his staffers who was a climate negotiator in the George W. Bush administration — amounts to a purge of high - level administration staffers who believe the U.S. will benefit from international cooperation on climate issues.

Former National Economic Council Director Lawrence Lindsey gives Jon his two cents on Obama's stimulus plan.

On one side of the question are policy experts like National Economic Council Director Gary Cohn and George David Banks, a special assistant to the president for international energy and environment, who caution that a departure from the globally popular deal could complicate Trump's efforts on trade and security issues.

CNBC senior contributor Larry Kudlow will be Trump's new National Economic Council director, replacing Gary Cohn, which is good news for Wall Street.

Rumors that former Goldman Sachs executive Gary Cohn was considering stepping down as National Economic Council Director pushed stocks down further.

At a meeting of administration officials and moderate Democratic Senators, National Economic Council Director Gary Cohn pulled out his cellphone and took a call from Trump, who is traveling in Asia this week, according an account of the meeting from Sen. Sherrod Brown (D - Ohio)-- one of the Democrats gathered for a meeting organized by Sen. Joe Manchin III (D - W.

On trade policy, he wanted tougher measures against China but faced opposition from National Economic Council director Gary Cohn, the former Goldman Sachs COO.

Two of Trump's top aides, Chief of Staff Reince Priebus and National Economic Council director Gary Cohn, in interviews with CBS, both projected confidence Monday that it would.

The Trump administration's trade policy team — USTR Robert Lighthizer, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, National Economic Council Director Larry Kudlow, and National Trade Council Director Peter Navarro — is in Beijing this week, presumably to get China to commit to certain actions that would enable tensions to be dialed down.

White House Economic Council Director Gary Cohn and Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin on Wednesday laid out the administration's skeleton plan for tax cuts that was big on promises, but remarkably sparse on details, as President Donald Trump sprints to the Saturday finish line marking his first 100 days in office.

Don't Blame the Messenger: New National Economic Council Director Larry Kudlow recently said CBO is «always wrong, especially, with regards to tax cuts.»

Perez along with White House National Economic Council Director Jeffrey Zients, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D - Mass., and other lawmakers will publicly announce the final rule at an event scheduled for Wednesday at the Center for American Progress in Washington.

At a White House roundtable, led by National Economic Council Director Gary Cohn, featuring people in the real estate industry, the topic came up.

Larry Kudlow, National Economic Council director, being interviewed on TV outside the White House last Friday.

Commerce Secretary nominee Wilbur Ross was a billionaire investor; Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin was a hedge fund manager; and National Economic Council Director Gary Cohn was president of Goldman Sachs, to cite three.

From L - R are IBM CEO Ginni Rometty, Pepsico CEO Indra Nooyi, Blackstone CEO Stephen Schwarzman, U.S. President Donald Trump, General Motors CEO Mary Barra, White House National Economic Council Director Gary Cohn and Wal - Mart CEO Doug McMillon.

Meanwhile, people close to the president said he is simmering with displeasure over what he considers personal disloyalty from National Economic Council Director Gary Cohn, who criticized Trump's responses to a deadly white supremacist rally in Charlottesville on Aug. 12.

Cohn did not publicly support Trump during the campaign, but Kushner invited him in to meet with the president - elect during the transition, and Cohn apparently really wowed him — after a few more meetings, he was named National Economic Council director, making him the top economic policy staffer in the White House.

According to Axios, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, National Economic Council Director Gary Cohn, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, and Defense Secretary James Mattis have all been fighting against steel and aluminum tariffs.

Evaluating Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, White House National Economic Council Director Gary Cohn, and Commerce Secretary - designate Wilbur Ross, Buffett said: «They're Wall Street guys.

One of the administration officials helping to direct the overhaul of Dodd - Frank is National Economic Council Director Gary Cohn, who recently stepped down as chief operating officer at Goldman Sachs.

On Wednesday, President Donald Trump is set to unveil a framework for tax reform, building off work done by the so - called Big Six: a group of top tax policymakers in the Trump administration (Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin and National Economic Council director Gary Cohn), the Senate (Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Finance Committee chair Orrin Hatch), and the House (Speaker Paul Ryan and Ways and Means Committee chair Kevin Brady).

Markets opened lower on Wednesday morning, the day after the National Economic Council director announced plans to resign.

Trump's announcement of plans to slap tariffs on steel and aluminum imports have sparked speculation that National Economic Council Director Gary Cohn, who is reportedly against the tariffs, might leave.

Administration members who attended the signing included White House counsel Donald McGahn; chief of staff Reince Priebus; Jared Kushner, domestic policy director Andrew Bremberg; and National Economic Council director Director Gary Cohn.

In dismissing projected trillion - dollar deficits, National Economic Council director Larry Kudlow recently claimed that one should «never believe the...

And the administration has made clear in recent days it will leave formal drafting of a tax bill to GOP leaders on the House Ways and Means and Senate Finance committees who have been part of the so - called Big Six negotiating group, which includes Mnuchin and National Economic Council Director Gary Cohn.

Incoming National Economic Council Director Larry Kudlow speaks with the «Closing Bell» news desk about trade and economic policies.

At a meeting of The Wall Street Journal's CEO Council, an interview with Cohn — the National Economic Council director who previously worked as an executive at Goldman Sachs — prompted discussion about the amount of investment the GOP tax bill, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, would generate.

Shulkin's departure comes on the heels of a series of exit announcements from the Trump administration in this month alone, including those by Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, National Security Advisor Director H.R. McMaster, National Economic Council Director Gary Cohn, Communications Director Hope Hicks, and Trump's personal aide John McEntee.

Former National Economic Council Director Gary Cohn was almost named the head of the CIA, according to Politico.

Gary Cohn, the National Economic Council director who announced his resignation on Tuesday after failing to persuade Trump against the tariffs, stood in the back of the room.

He drew up his own plan to save the banks in 2009, and he was welcomed to the White House by then - National Economic Council director Larry Summers for a talk.

On Wednesday, National Economic Council Director Larry Kudlow told reporters it's «possible» the proposed tariffs on China may not actually take effect.

Larry Kudlow, National Economic Council director, discusses the Trump administration's trade policies as a delegation gets set to go to China to discuss bilateral trade.

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Lighthizer [who is U.S. Trade Representative] and [National Economic Council] Director Kudlow to take another look at whether or not a better deal could be negotiated.»

Apple CEO Tim Cook visited the White House earlier this month, where he discussed Chinese tariffs and U.S. tax reform, according to Larry Kudlow, director of the National Economic Council.

China, in particular, manipulates «all the rules,» including «stealing our intellectual property here through corporate espionage,» added Lindsey, who served as director of the National Economic Council under Bush.

He publicly criticized Trump's protectionist moves in the White House just days before being tapped to succeed Gary Cohn as the director of the National Economic Council.

«Larry Kudlow will be my Chief Economic Advisor as Director of the National Economic Council,» Trump said.

Gary Cohn, the director of the White House Economic Council, came close to resigning in the wake of Trump's response to the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, last summer.

Tillerson's dismissal comes a week after Gary Cohn resigned as the National Economic Council's director.

«The president owns this plan; don't be mistaken,» said Gary Cohn, director of the White House National Economic Council.

«Larry Kudlow was offered, and accepted, the position of Assistant to the President for Economic Policy and Director of the National Economic Council,» Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the White House Press Secretary, said in a statement Wednesday.

Gary Cohn, the director of the National Economic Council and President Donald Trump's top economic adviser, said on March 6 that he wouldEconomic Council and President Donald Trump's top economic adviser, said on March 6 that he wouldeconomic adviser, said on March 6 that he would resign.