We heard about the tax reform from steny hoyer. Well hear about the president s tax plan, well look at it but if it gives a huge tax break to the very wealthy democrats, that wont pass muster with democrats. The treasury secretary talked about the tax policy this morning in an event hosted by the hill newspaper. [applause] thanks. Well, we timed this event quite well, i think. Well, mr. Secretary, thanks for doing this. You met with Republican Leaders on capitol hill about tax reform yesterday. Is the administration and Republican Leaders, are you on the same page and how confident are you this can get done this year . Secretary mnuchin well, first of all, thank you for having me here this morning. Its a pleasure. Weve been meeting weekly with chairman brady and people at the senate on tax reform. So since the president has been in office, this is something weve been working on very closely. I think as you know we have over 100 people in the Tax Department at treasury who have been cru
Was your reaction to the secretarys comments . Were you heartened . I know we recently wrote a story about the possibility of transportation mixing with tax reform. The secretary saying no. Gopher big step forward. If you put grover big step forward. If you put Infrastructure Spending inside tax reform, thats less resources for further rate reduction. It reduce what is can you do in terms of the reform on taxes. Separating that is helpful. Bob maya, as far as the debt, and the offsets, it has been reported that the border adjustment tax certainly as the house has it is not going to be one of the offsets. Are you concerned about this being blowing a hole in the nations debt . Maya thank you for asking the question about offsets. Thank you for asking the question about the debt. Im a huge supporter of tax reform. We need tax reform as a way to grow the economy and increase competitiveness and lowering the Corporate Tax rate is an important piece of that. But theres been no talk of what t