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Alan Rappeport

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Economic Policy reporter at The New York Times. Formerly @FT ; @MarjorieDeane alum @TheEconomist @LSEECHist . alan.rappeport @nytimes .com. 🔁/❤️ ≠ endorsement

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Alan Rappeport
2 years
At one point during his emotional presentation, Zelensky paused to ask one of the American lawmakers to mute themselves. “Senator Rick Scott, please mute your mic,” he said.
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Ukraine urges US to send warplanes to Poland and other allies
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Schumer secured a provision in the agreement that will prohibit businesses controlled by the President, Vice President, Members of Congress, and heads of Executive Departments from receiving loans or investments from Treasury programs, per senior Dem aide.
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7 years
Obama and Trump, on reading.
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6 years
Zuckerberg is not able to give a straight answer about whether Facebook tracks browsing activity after users log off.
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5 years
Create problem > fix problem > take credit > repeat
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Today, I officially updated my budget to include $18 million for our GREAT @SpecialOlympics , whose athletes inspire us and make our Nation so PROUD!
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Mnuchin says if Trump wins he plans to stay on as Treasury secretary. Adds that he will not stay on if asked by Biden.
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Alan Rappeport
6 years
Rep. Michael Capuano of Massachusetts enters the house financial services hearing in an EAGLES helmet.
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Alan Rappeport
6 years
And Trump gets another Time cover.
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STURGIS, S.D. —The founder of Bikers for Trump is mobilizing opposition to Harley-Davidson for making bikes abroad. But he's selling Trump T-shirts made in Haiti, because American shirts are too expensive.
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Alan Rappeport
4 years
Obama: "George Wallace may be gone, but we can witness our federal government sending agents to use tear gas and batons against peaceful demonstrators."
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8 years
Trump just told everyone to go vote on November 28
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4 years
Trump says if you "take the blue states out" US Covid deaths would be at a very low level.
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Alan Rappeport
4 years
+ Their children, spouses and in-laws also can’t get the funds.
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4 years
The former USPS IG, David Williams, said that Mnuchin essentially tried to take over the Postal Service and impose authority over an independent agency. He called it illegal and "especially egregious."
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6 years
Lindsey Graham says “the financial contributions will stop” if tax reform fails.
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5 years
Here’s an early design of the Harriet Tubman $20 bill created by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. Steven Mnuchin said designs would be delayed until 2026 and a future Treasury secretary will decide who’s on the face of the note.
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Pelosi on Trump's Dingell comments: "What the president misunderstands is that cruelty is not wit," she said. "It's not funny at all, it's very sad."
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Alan Rappeport
5 years
DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen planning to go to Davos during a national emergency crisis at the border -->
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Big Trump contingent set for Davos amid shutdown
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7 years
Mnuchin on repealing the estate tax: "Obviously the estate tax, I will concede, disproportionately helps rich people."
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WORLD BANK: "Following the Russian invasion of Ukraine and hostilities against the people of Ukraine, the World Bank Group has stopped all its programs in Russia and Belarus with immediate effect.”
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3 years
Biden says he would entertain doing away with the filibuster for voting rights and "maybe more" issues at CNN town hall.
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Alan Rappeport
6 years
UPDATE: Senator Elizabeth Warren calls for Treasury IG to investigate whether Treasury actually analyzed the tax plan and if there was political interference. Says Mnuchin "grossly misled the public."
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Alan Rappeport
6 years
Steven Mnuchin regularly says he has 100 people at Treasury crunching numbers that show tax cuts will pay for themselves. They say they've been sidelined and no such numbers exist.
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Alan Rappeport
5 years
Trump has arrived at the golf course in Florida, per pool, on the first full day of the national emergency.
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5 years
Frederick Christ (pronounced Krist) Trump was born in New York City in 1905
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Trump just said "my father is German, was German. Born in a very wonderful place in Germany." Fred Trump was born in New York.
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Ivana Trump tells CBS that POTUS offered her the ambassadorship to Czech Republic. Trump said, "'Ivana, if you want it, I give it to you.’”
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Alan Rappeport
6 years
Kudlow on FNB: “The deficit, it’s coming down and it’s coming down rapidly.” (It’s not)
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4 years
Bolton on the Trump presidency: “This is a danger for the republic.”
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4 years
Trump on a Tik Tok sale: "The United States should get a very large percentage of that price." CFIUS lawyers said today that this sounded like a "shake down" and that there's not a legal way to demand such a take.
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4 years
Fauci says "We're going in the wrong direction" when you look at the case numbers and coronavirus curve. Says he is "very concerned."
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6 years
SCHUMER: "Historians will mark today as one of the darkest black letter days in the long history of this senate."
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6 years
Mattis looks down as Trump drops a "Crooked Hillary" reference when discussing NATO.
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3 years
. @PressSec says the White House will soon be releasing Biden's tax returns. The fact that the president's tax returns are always audited will not prevent him from making them public.
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5 years
NEW: Steven Mnuchin recently flew to L.A. on private jet Michael Milken, the billionaire "junk bond” king who pleaded guilty to securities fraud in 1990 and served two years in prison.
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4 years
Ouch.
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7 years
So much for that grand bargain. Democrats double down on Trump's taxes to put tax reform on the ropes.
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5 years
Republican senators send letter to Sec. Mnuchin asking him to unilaterally cut taxes for the rich
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3 years
Kudlow on CNBC: "This is the greatest democracy in the world, and we abide by the rule of law, and so will this president." "I think there will be a peaceful transfer of power."
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6 years
Cohen’s father told him he didn’t survive the holocaust to have the family name sullied by Trump.
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Rebecca Ballhaus
6 years
Under pressure: The inside story of how Michael Cohen turned on his former boss. Great read from ⁦ @rebeccadobrien ⁩ ⁦ @nicole_hong ⁩ ⁦ @joe_palazzolo
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Fauci tells CNN lives would have been saved it social distancing started in February: “There was a lot of pushback about shutting things down back then.”
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5 years
Both senators from Iowa, where a Morning Consult poll today showed Trump approval minus 13.
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Another GOP senator breaks from Trump to defend Ukraine whistleblower
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“When President Gerald Ford visited the island in 1975 — the only sitting president to make such a visit — he and first lady Betty Ford traveled by horse-drawn carriage.”
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Vice President Mike Pence in an 8-vehicle motorcade on Mackinac Island, which has banned motorized vehicles for more than a century.
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3 years
Toomey to Fox on Trump: “I understand he wants to be remembered for advocating for big checks, but the danger is he’ll be remembered for chaos and misery and erratic behavior if he allows this to expire.”
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CORKER: "I am not able to cast aside my fiscal concerns and vote for legislation that I believe, based on the information I currently have, could deepen the debt burden on future generations."
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Alan Rappeport
5 years
Wilbur Ross had an undocumented household employee that didn’t derail his confirmation and its par for the course at Trump Org
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Jennifer Jacobs
5 years
NEWS: Heather Nauert's nomination began to falter after the White House was alerted that a problem had cropped up in her background check —Trump’s pick for UN ambassador had employed a nanny who was in US legally but didn’t have a US work permit, sources tell me and @nwadhams .
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Biden: "Nobody should go to jail for a drug offense, nobody should go to jail for the use of a drug."
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Trump reading a speech yesterday: "This moment calls for healing and reconciliation." Trump on Twitter today: "To all of those who have asked, I will not be going to the Inauguration on January 20th."
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Facui says on Fox that he's trying to figure out what people (Trump) are talking about when they say that rules of previous administrations are slowing virus testing.
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6 years
Counsel
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Donald J. Trump
6 years
James Comey illegally leaked classified documents to the press in order to generate a Special Council? Therefore, the Special Council was established based on an illegal act? Really, does everybody know what that means?
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4 years
Trump says he told Pence "Don't call the woman in Michigan"- referring to Gov. Whitmer.
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4 years
Trump calls the people that prosecuted Flynn, Manafort and Stone “human scum,” and makes pretty clear they’ll get pardons without saying so.
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5 years
Visitors to the Bureau of Engraving and Printing in Washington are being told that the Harriet Tubman $20 bill has been scrapped for political reasons.
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3 years
"We need to hold people accountable when they break the law," Sen. Warren tells @dealbook when asked if a Biden administration should investigate Trump.
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Yellen at lunch with women economists in Beijing: “While the U.S. has differences with the Chinese government, these are not disagreements with the Chinese people.”
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4 years
Trump could end up switching from “stop the counting” to calling for recounts if these margins hold.
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What we know: —Some outlets called #AZ & #NE02 for Biden. If holds, WI, MI, & NV enough if he wins them. —Biden up 0.6% in NV. Many ballots in Clark. —Biden up 0.7% in WI. Not a big chunk left. —Biden down 0.5% in MI, but many blue precincts left. —PA, GA, NC are also uncalled.
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Alan Rappeport
5 years
US Steel's stock price is down 47% in the last year.
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Biden’s team delayed his Middle East trip so the 79 year old president would have more time to rest after last month’s Europe/NATO meetings via ⁦ @peterbakernyt
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! Trump suggests on CNBC that he’d look to cut entitlements if re-elected.
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3 years
Trump brandishes the p-word again: “You can either go down in history as a patriot,” Trump told Pence before he went to oversee the electoral vote “or you can go down in history as a pussy.” ⁦ @peterbakernyt ⁩ ⁦ @maggieNYT ⁩ ⁦ @anniekarni
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Alan Rappeport
6 years
Kudlow says the rising deficit is falling, Mnuchin says tax cuts pay for themselves as Treasury boosts debt sales, Hassett defends tariffs but won’t show his study that shows they will blunt economic growth.
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Kudlow claims the deficit is "coming down rapidly." Actually the opposite is true. ⁦ @YLindaQiu ⁩ crunches the numbers.
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"He's not coming to my office," Pelosi says of Mnuchin, who she said tells her he's tested every day. "I'll see you on the phone."
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3 years
Republicans mused for years what a nightmare it would be if Bernie Sanders chaired budget committee, jamming socialist policies through the Senate. Now the post is his. "They should be worried," @SenSanders says of his GOP colleagues. w/ @jimtankersley
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Alan Rappeport
3 years
Biden’s Treasury aims to fast-track the effort to put Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill that the Trump administration halted.
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6 years
Schumer moves to adjourn until Monday so senators can read the bill.
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4 years
This was not on the @USTreasury weekly schedule of public engagements.
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Russian Embassy in USA 🇷🇺
4 years
On March 9, 2020, Russian Ambassador to the U.S. Anatoly Antonov met the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin ✅
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5 years
Sarah Sanders on CBN: "“I think God calls all of us to fill different roles at different times and I think that he wanted Donald Trump to become president."
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Yellen signals an end to Trump's trade strategy: "I believe we should try to address unfair trade practices and the best way to do that is to work with our allies, rather than unilaterally."
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Yellen says she would support eliminating the debt ceiling.
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Janet Yellen urges House Democrats not to water down her plan to empower a beefed up IRS to crack down on tax evaders, signaling that the "tax gap" is one of her top priorities in the $3.5 trillion bill.
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6 years
At Wharton many wonder why he brags about the school so much but donates relatively little.
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6 years
Why did Trump tweet about his mental health this morning? “Only because I went to the best colleges, or college.” @maggieNYT
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After skipping Arlington on V-Day, Trump says SEALS were too slow getting Bin Laden.
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Axios
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Trump on retired Navy SEAL Adm. Bill McRaven, who has called the president's attacks on the press "the greatest threat to democracy." "He's a Hillary Clinton backer and an Obama backer. And frankly, wouldn't it have been nice if we got Osama bin Laden a lot sooner than that?"
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Mick Mulvaney says on FBN he’s “a little concerned about the use of Rudy Giuliani” to challenge the election results. “This is not a television program”
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5 years
NEW: Treasury Inspector General to review handling of Trump’s taxes
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4 years
Welcome to the Jungle >>
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3 years
Trump sinking the stimulus bill stunned administration officials. Mnuchin held nearly 200 calls in the last week, including some with POTUS, on the deal and negotiated on his behalf. Tuesday night, Trump said it was a "disgrace." w/ @lukebroadwater
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Graham on Meet the Press: “I believe there's plenty of evidence that the Russians interacted with the Trump campaign and Mr. Mueller's going to get to the bottom of it.”
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Alan Rappeport
5 years
NEW: Schumer formally requests Treasury inspector general investigate Mnuchin’s handling of the Harriet Tubman $20 bill, calls delays for political reasons “improper and unacceptable.”
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Alan Rappeport
4 years
FWIW, Mnuchin has indicated before that he would stay on until a new Treasury secretary is confirmed if Biden wins.
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Biden says "we're expected to reach well over 600,000" dead from the virus.
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Alan Rappeport
3 years
Fauci on ⁦ @FoxNewsSunday ⁩ calls on Trump to urge his followers to get vaccinated:
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Alan Rappeport
4 years
And DC shuts down
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Alan Rappeport
3 years
The Treasury department is taking steps to resume the effort to put Harriet Tubman on the $20, @jrpsaki says
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Alan Rappeport
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The National Retail Federation slams Trump's latest round of tariffs: "It's impossible for businesses to plan for the future in this type of environment. The administration's approach clearly isn't working, and the answer isn't more taxes on American businesses and consumers."
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In 2016, Trump campaigned on saving Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security without cuts. Not anymore. Asked in Davos if cuts to welfare programs are on the table he said: "At the right time, we will take a look at that.” w/ @maggieNYT
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Biden says he raised China's human rights abuses with Xi Jinping: "There will be repercussions for China."
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Yellen says she will appoint someone "at a very senior level" at Treasury to focus on climate change and create a hub to deal with financial risks and tax incentives related to climate. "I think climate change is an existential threat."
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Alan Rappeport
7 years
George W. Bush's ethics lawyer --->
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Richard W. Painter
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Misleading the Senate in sworn testimony about one own contacts with the Russians is a good way to go to jail
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4 years
Treasury/SBA reverse course, will disclose PPP loan info.
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Former Treasury secretaries, including Paulson, back Inflation Reduction Act >>
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Alan Rappeport
3 years
Giuliani to Hannity: “My reaction is great disappointment.”
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Alan Rappeport
5 years
On Tax Day, Trump’s lawyer says House Dems seeking his returns have a “radical view of unchecked congressional power.”
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Alan Rappeport
6 years
CORKER says Treasury officials came to meet him today, but did not bring the analysis of the tax plan he had been promised: "They came over, had a very nice meeting, but there's no modeling yet."
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Alan Rappeport
6 years
A deputy to WH counsel Don McGahn tried to trick Trump into believing he didn’t have the power to fire Comey because he didn’t trust the president to make the right decision.
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