Gary Cohn to Resign as Trump’s Top Economic Adviser
"Trump Plans Tariffs on Steel and Aluminum and Markets Slump [...] Gary D. Cohn, the director of the National Economic Council, had been lobbying for months alongside others, including Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and Rob Porter, the staff secretary who recently resigned under pressure from the White House, to kill, postpone or at least narrow the scope of the measures, people familiar with the discussions said."
By KATE KELLY, MAGGIE HABERMAN and PETER BAKER MARCH 6, 2018
Gary D. Cohn, the president’s top economic adviser, last month at the White House. Officials insisted there was no single factor behind his departure. Credit Tom Brenner/The New York Times
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