Trump Vows to Unveil Tax-Cut Plan Next Week, Surprising Staff
when reporters asked Steven Mnuchin, the Treasury secretary, how far away a tax overhaul proposal was, he said he could not give an answer. “Tax reform is way too complicated,” he said.
.. complicated by Mr. Trump’s hopes to revive the Republican health care plan that collapsed last month
.. a senior administration official said the president would release only the “parameters” that Mr. Trump expected a tax plan to follow
- middle-income tax cuts,
- a simplification of personal income taxes, and
- making business taxes more competitive with other countries are the top priorities
.. some skeptics were left questioning whether Mr. Trump was keeping his campaign promises to give working-class Americans a higher priority than Wall Street bankers.
Pfizer-Allergen deal .. were surprised by how aggressively the White House fought the deal. Within a few months, Pfizer and Allergan surrendered