Sentences with phrase «national economic council»

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.

Other presenters at the meeting were Jim Parrott of the National Economic Council, Michael Calhoun of the Center for Responsible Lending, Ray Natter, former counsel with the OCC and Federal Reserve, Susan Wachter of the University of Pennsylvania, and Brian Gardner, a Washington policy analyst with Keefe, Bruyette & Woods.

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.

Gary Cohn, director of Trump's National Economic Council, is meeting with House Financial Services Committee members Friday morning, said two people familiar with his schedule.

Director of the National Economic Council Gary Cohn promises tax reform will come in September, according to CNBC.

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.

«In a meeting with NAR's leadership, Gary Cohn [director of the National Economic Council under President Donald Trump] said the mortgage interest deduction is in trouble because they don't necessarily believe it's as important as other tax considerations.

National Economic Council Chairman Larry Kudlow appears on Fox News for an interview with Chris Wallace discussing Trump administration trade positions.

It looks to us like Lawrence Kudlow is off to a good start as President Trump's new director of the National Economic Council — just in the nick of time.

Those disclosures included the assets of Gary D. Cohn, the former president of Goldman Sachs who now leads the National Economic Council, Kellyanne Conway, the pollster and counsel to Mr. Trump and Stephen K. Bannon, the chief strategist to the president.

The White House also announced the release of a new paper by the National Economic Council and the Council of Economic Advisers, called Patent Assertion and U.S. Innovation.

The company's board includes the former top financial regulator in New York state, Benjamin M. Lawsky, and Gene Sperling, who was the director of the National Economic Council under Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton.

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

According to a report prepared by the National Economic Council, policyholders in the state of Alaska and Florida have seen the biggest difference between insurance rate hikes and wage increases.

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.

From a brand - new report from President Obama's National Economic Council:

President - elect Barack Obama has named former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers to head his National Economic Council.

Consider economist Lawrence Summers» appointment as director of the White House National Economic Council.

Baker and his colleagues met Wednesday with Gary Cohn, head of Trump's National Economic Council, and spoke more briefly with White House chief of staff Reince Priebus and counselor to the president Kellyanne Conway.

«The surge in American natural gas production has lowered energy costs for manufacturers and driven job growth, with U.S. natural gas costs one - half that of Europe and one - third that of Asia,» according to the White House National Economic Council report.

An October 2016 report by President Obama's White House National Economic Council 14 is a significant reminder that our nation's leadership in clean natural gas production has meant lower costs for American manufacturers and consumers.

-- Ryan Williams, a Republican consultant who worked for Mitt Romney, on Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Gary Cohn, director of the National Economic Council, publicly challenging statements by President Donald Trump

Parrott, a former senior advisor to the National Economic Council, said banks like Wells are saying that «we can't take the risk anymore and we're pulling back.»

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

Other potential candidates include former Fed governor Kevin Warsh, Stanford economist John Taylor and the Director of the National Economic Council Gary Cohn.

The Task Force is chaired by Vice President Joe Biden and consists of the heads of major executive branch departments, agencies, and offices including the NIH, the NCI, the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Departments of Defense, Commerce, and Health, the National Economic Council, and others.

Although the former president of Harvard University and current director of the National Economic Council may have been right on a few details, he was wrong on his major point.

The only Trump administration engagement on climate change came at the start of the week, when White House National Economic Council chief Gary Cohn hosted counterparts for a Monday morning breakfast to reiterate that the United States would exit Paris and to squash reports that it might be searching for a way back in.

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.

Bureau of Plant Industry / National Economic Council / National Research Council / National Warehousing Corporation

Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, has broken silence on the $ 1 billion approved to be withdrawn from the Excess Crude Account by the National Economic Council (NEC) for fighting insurgency in the North East.

The Sub-Committee of the National Economic Council (NEC) on Remittance to Federation Account on Wednesday directed that filling stations situated 10 kilometres to the borders be...

That is one of the reasons why we will make a focus not only of the work that we do through the National Economic Council and across Government Departments, but of the work on the issues that will be raised in the G20 when it is hosted by this country in April.

Governors under the aegis of the Nigeria Governors» Forum last week after the National Economic Council meeting announced that the sum of $ 1bn be withdrawn from the Excess Crude Account for fighting the Boko Haram insurgents which President Muhammadu Buhari and his government spokespersons had declared already «technically defeated» some months ago.

She also disclosed that «at the National Economic Council meeting on Thursday March 16, 2017, President Muhammadu Buhari instructed the Minister of Finance and Central Bank Governor to commence the process of resolving the balance of the approved amount.»

In an effort to galvanize some support across the aisle, the White House has dispatched Marc Short, director of legislative affairs, and Gary D. Cohn, director of the National Economic Council, to meet with top Senate Democrats on Tuesday to discuss the tax plan.

Speaking further on the likely impact of the just concluded expanded retreat of the National Economic Council, NEC in Abuja, Governor Fayose stated that the present economic situations in the country indicated that president Buhari lacked technical competence to solve the problem of the country.

Speaking with State House correspondents on the sidelines of the expanded National Economic Council meeting at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, Bello claimed that he had not seen the video as he was too busy to listen to a noise maker.

(m) Rising from its monthly meeting at Abuja on September 17, 2015 the National Economic Council accused the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) of failing to remit N3.8 trillion to the Federation Account under the Jonathan administration.

«The money was approved by the governors during a meeting last Friday of the National Economic Council (NEC) presided over by Vice President Professor Yemi Osinbajo.»

Speaking on the ban placed by the National Economic Council on open grazing in Benue, Taraba, Plateau, Kaduna etc, Ortom described it as welcome decision.

The Minister of Budget and National Planning, Senator Udo Udoma, disclosed this to State House correspondents at the Presidential Villa, Abuja at the end of a meeting of the National Economic Council presided over by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo.

The National Economic Council Committee on Farmers and Herdsmen clashes on Saturday visited Zamfara on a fact - finding mission over security challenges in the state.

In a move to forestall further violence and killings associated with farmers and herdsman crisis, the National Economic Council (NEC), a forum of Nigeria governors has banned open grazing in the country.

The statement signed by the President of SOKAD — USA, Dr. Freeman Kamuru, its Secretary, Danlami Ngboze and Financial Secretary, Saidu John, reads: «The decision of the National Economic Council (NEC) of the Federal Government of Nigeria to set up a Sub-Committee to visit the frontline States «involved in herdsmen / farmers conflict and hold consultations with the stakeholders and interested parties on how to end the conflicts», is a good and welcome move that is long overdue.

The Minister of Budget and National Planning, Sen. Udoma Udo udoma, stated this when he briefed State House correspondents, alongside Gov. Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo, on the outcome of the meeting of the National Economic Council (NEC) in the Presidential Villa, Abuja, on Thursday.

The People of Southern Kaduna in Diaspora (SOKAD) has described as, «deficient of logic and reason» the non inclusion of Kaduna state by the sub-committee of the National Economic Council (NEC) set up to visit frontline States suffering from herdsmen versus farmers violence.

Vice President Yemi Osibajo who made this known after the National Economic Council meeting...

Fayose, who was in Abuja to attend the National Economic Council, NEC, retreat, said he had been waiting for President Buhari to take such action.