Gary Cohn is reportedly set to leave the White House as soon as tax reform is done

[blondebanshee]

Guess he's not happy with working for a White Nationalist



[link:http://www.businessinsider.com/gary-cohn-leaving-white-house-trump-administration-after-tax-reform-2017-10|

[Iliyah]

1. What if no tax reform?

[marylandblue]

2. Then tax reform is pretty much done, and so is Trump

[Kleveland]

4. I dunno, I think they are both half baked. n/t

[fleur-de-lisa]

3. So never? NT

[HipChick]

5. Why wait?

[SummerSnow]

6. Another one bites the dust...soon.

[SummerSnow]

7. Ohh look what I just found...

Trump Decides Against Gary Cohn for Fed Chair

President Donald Trump does not intend to appoint National Economic Council Director Gary Cohn to lead the Federal Reserve, three people familiar with the matter said.

Trump said in at least one private meeting last week that Cohn has no chance of being Fed chair, according to a person present for the remarks.

Trump has privately told advisers that Cohn is doing a great job in his current role and that he wants to keep him at the White House through congressional consideration of his proposed tax overhaul, according to a person familiar with the conversations.

“No decision has been made and no candidate has been ruled out but Gary’s role is too crucial to getting tax reform done,” a senior administration official familiar with the president’s thinking said. It may be “too important for him to continue to be the lead, for him to announce a change at this time.”

Cohn is likely to leave the White House soon after Congress disposes with the tax plan, two people said. Cohn declined to comment.

The former Goldman Sachs Group Inc. banker’s prospects at landing the Fed job had been dwindling for a while -- Trump stopped talking about him publicly as a candiate a week ago. Cohn’s elimination whittles the list of contenders down to four people: the current chair, Janet Yellen, Fed Board Governor Jerome Powell, Stanford University economist John Taylor and former Fed Governor Kevin Warsh.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-10-25/trump-is-said-to-decide-against-adviser-gary-cohn-for-fed-chair