Trump picks Kevin Hassett to lead White House economics team

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Source: Washington Post

Trump picks Kevin Hassett to lead White House economics team
The president-elect vowed dramatic tariff hikes on Monday but has tapped traditional conservatives like Kevin Hassett for economic positions.


Kevin Hassett, then chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, talks to reporters on April 11, 2019. President-elect Donald Trump named Hassett the director of the White House National Economic Council on Tuesday. (Oliver Contreras/For The Washington Post)

By Jeff Stein
November 26, 2024 at 9:35 p.m. EST

President-elect Donald Trump announced Tuesday evening that he has selected Kevin Hassett to be director of the White House National Economic Council, filling out a key policy post in his upcoming administration.

Hassett served as chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers during Trump’s first term in office and advised Trump on economic policy during the 2024 presidential campaign. A conservative economist who worked for the American Enterprise Institute, a center-right think tank, Hassett is now a fellow in economics at the Hoover Institution, another right-leaning think tank.

By Jeff Stein
Jeff Stein is the White House economics reporter for The Washington Post. He was a crime reporter for the Syracuse Post-Standard and, in 2014, founded the local news nonprofit the Ithaca Voice in Upstate New York. He was also a reporter for Vox.follow on X @jstein_wapo

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/11/26/kevin-hassett-trump-economics/

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1. Trump Taps Kevin Hassett, Who Crafted 2017 Tax Cuts for the Rich, to Lead National Economic Council

The bottom of the Trump barrel keeps getting more stinky and rotten!!


Trump Taps Kevin Hassett, Who Crafted 2017 Tax Cuts for the Rich, to Lead National Economic Council
https://www.democracynow.org/2024/11/27/headlines/trump_taps_kevin_hassett_who_crafted_2017_tax_cuts_for_the_rich_to_lead_national_economic_council

Headline Nov 27, 2024

President-elect Trump has tapped his former chief economist Kevin Hassett to lead the National Economic Council. Hassett helped craft the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, which massively redistributed wealth to the richest 1% of Americans — including Trump’s family and members of his administration. In 2020, Hassett argued COVID lockdowns should be lifted, predicting zero deaths from the disease by May 15 of that year. In fact, the CDC reported more than 350,000 U.S. COVID deaths in 2020.

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