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The person who sent Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin a box of manure in response to President Donald Trump’s tax reform has been identified as Dr. Robert Strong, a psychologist for the Los Angeles Department of Children’s Health.

Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin said FBI special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia probe was a “giant distraction.” Mnuchin said  “I was at dinner last night with the president, the vice president. I haven’t heard anything

European ministers complained to Steven Mnuchin in a letter on Monday that the Republican Tax Cuts and Jobs Act will favor American trade.

President Donald Trump may nominate Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) temporarily, according to Bloomberg News.

President Donald Trump is leaning toward appointing both Standford University economist John Taylor and former investment Jerome “Jay” Powell to top positions at the Federal Reserve, according to people familiar with the president’s thinking.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin is traveling to Israel on Thursday in a weeklong anti-terrorism tour of the Middle East.

Republicans might add a new tax bracket for those who earn more than $1 million to pay for tax cuts for middle-class families.

NBC’s Hallie Jackson and Kristen Welker describe “Steve Bannon and the Breitbart base” as “a possible monkey wrench” in the plans of globalist White House aides and establishment Republicans heading into this month’s high-stakes legislative fight.

Contents: Will we have to accept a world in which North Korea is a nuclear power?; World leaders express outrage and call nuclear test ‘unacceptable’; Will the United States take some military action against North Korea?

President Donald Trump said “appeasement will not work” with the “rogue nation” of North Korea, because “they only understand one thing,” after dictator Kim Jong-un conducted the Communist nation’s sixth and most powerful nuclear bomb test.

Thursday in an interview with CNBC, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said the Trump administration had a “very detailed” tax plan ready and it expected Congress would “get this to the president to sign this year.” Mnuchin said, “The House and

National Economic Council Director Gary Cohn has no regrets about trashing President Donald Trump’s response to the violence in Charlottesville earlier this month.

What did Cohn demand in exchange for not quitting his White House post in the tumultuous week after the Charlottesville, Virginia, violence?

On Tuesday, the U.S. Treasury Department announced a new round of sanctions against Chinese and Russian individuals and corporate entities for supporting North Korea’s nuclear bomb and missile programs.

The wife of Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin struck back at critics of an Instagram post where she was seen bragging about taking trips on private jets and wearing expensive, high-end fashion bands.

Stephen K. Bannon’s exit from the Trump administration is being seen as a victory for the Chinese government.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says there is “zero chance” Congress will allow the country to default on its debts by voting to not increase the borrowing limit.

Steve Mnuchin has come under fire from fellow members of the Yale class of 1985 to resign from his position as Secretary of Treasury.

TEL AVIV – Iran is constructing a weapons factory for long-range rockets in northwest Syria, Israeli media reported Tuesday.

The U.S. Treasury Department announced sanctions on eight individuals in Venezuela on Wednesday, citing them for “organizing or otherwise supporting the creation of Venezuela’s Constituent Assembly” and “participating in anti-democratic actions.”

Not long after announcing that it would certify Iran’s ongoing compliance with the JCPOA or “nuclear deal,” the Trump administration announced new sanctions against Iran and its Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, for what Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin described as “malign activity.”

The Russian government has been funding radical environmental groups to “suppress the U.S. domestic oil & gas industry,” according to leading Congressional House members.

On Thursday, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin announced new sanctions against Chinese entities, bringing new pressure to bear against North Korea’s missile and nuclear weapons programs.

After a politically-motivated shooting that left Republicans and Democrats disheartened about the state of politics, lawmakers and spectators in both parties came together to celebrate America’s favorite pastime at the 56th annual Congressional Baseball Game Thursday evening.

“If I had been asked by the White House to assert a proposition as demonstrably false as the claim that this plan would produce revenue, I would have resigned,” Summers said.

Plan slashes taxes on individuals, small businesses and corporations.

Asked if the plan would be revenue neutral, meaning any reductions in expected revenue from tax cuts would be offset from increases in revenue or spending cuts elesewhere, Mnuchin instead said the plan would “pay for itself” through economic growth.

President Donald Trump, posed the question whether he would choose to pass healthcare reform or government funding through Congress next week, said he wants both.

This week Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin blamed a delay in healthcare reform for likely pushing the “aggressive timeline” for President Donald Trump’s tax reform back until after congress’ August recess.

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin appeared optimistic that China was willing to work with the United States on trade, after a series of meetings with President Xi Jinping and his delegation.

A Democratic senator has asked the Office of Government Ethics to investigate comments made by Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin in an interview this week, in which he appeared to jokingly “plug” one of his previous company’s films, The Lego Batman Movie.

The White House tried very hard Friday to send a clear message that the success of President Donald Trump’s tax and infrastructure agenda does not turn on the fate of the Obamacare replacement bill.

Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin is urging Congress to raise the U.S. debt ceiling “at the first opportunity.”

The successful confirmation of President Donald Trump’s cabinet nominees continued when senators voted 53-to-47 to confirm Steven Mnuchin as Treasury Secretary Monday.

The Democrats on the Senate Finance Committee withdrew from the committee’s business Tuesday, forcing the committee to delay voting on confirming Steven Mnuchin for Treasury Secretary and Rep. Thomas E. Price (R.-Ga.) for Health and Human Services Secretary.

“I think that the U.S. currency has been the most attractive currency to be in for very, very long periods of time,” Treasury Secretary nominee Steven Mnuchin said during his confirmation hearings on Thursday.