Showing posts with label Steve Mnuchin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Steve Mnuchin. Show all posts

Sunday, July 9, 2017

Steve Mnuchin doesn't want to talk about who will pay for the border wall

When asked by ABC if it's time for the Donald Trump to admit Mexico won't pay for the border wall, Secretary of Treasury Steve Mnuchin changed the subject and said that's not the focus for the time being, and that instead the priority is NAFTA.

Which is a pretty dumb way to change the subject, as there's no way to force Mexico to pay for the wall and Congress won't give Trump the money to pay for it.


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Wednesday, April 26, 2017

DAY 97: Trump claims his tax cut plan is the biggest in history, but it isn't

Today the Trump administration officially unveiled its tax reform proposal, claiming it would be the biggest tax cut in history.

But that's a double lie because, to start, it isn't a tax reform, but a tax cut, since it has no provisions to close loopholes nor to recover money to pay for the tax cuts it does contain, mainly for the richest Americans and corporations. And second of all, it isn't the biggest tax cut in history either. According to The New York Times, the biggest tax cuts in the history of the United Sates happened during the administration of Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan.


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Monday, April 17, 2017

Steve Mnuchin admits Trump's tax reform timing was not realistic

According to the Financial Times, Donald Trump's Treasury Secretary, Steve Mnuchin, admitted Donald Trump's time table for tax reform is not realistic. The reason? Because Trump wants to do health care reform first. Here's what the FT published:

Steve Mnuchin conceded that the administration’s timetable for its ambitious tax reform package is set to slip following the failure of Donald Trump’s healthcare bill. Mr Mnuchin told the FT that the target to get tax reforms through Congress and onto President Donald Trump’s desk before August was “highly aggressive to not realistic at this point”. (FT)


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Wednesday, January 25, 2017

HYPOCRISY: Trump's daughter, Steve Bannon and Steve Mnuchin were registered to vote in 2 states

Donald Trump said he would investigate "voter fraud" by people registered to vote in two states during the 2016 election. But according to the New York Daily News, one of Trump's daughters, Tiffany Trump, and two of his top aides, Steve Bannon and Steve Mnuchin, were registered to vote in two states during the 2016 presidential election.

From the article published by the New York Daily News:


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