On monday, february 3rd, cspans campaign 2020, your unfiltered view of politics. Former National Security adviser susan rice joined a panel with Obama Administration officials to discuss the National Security priorities, progressive government should focus on during his first 100 days in office. Good morning. Welcome to the National Security conference. It is wonderful to see so many friendly faces, former officials, advocates, Congressional Staff. Thank you again for joining us this morning. It feels like a big Family Reunion which is nice to have but it is more than a reunion, more than an average think tank conference because we have an urgent task before us, to be ready, to be ready to advance progressive National Security Foreign Policy agenda on day one of the new presidency. Should we be so lucky in november. It is very obvious theres a lot of repair work to be done after donald trump. To show how bad things have gotten and what danger might lie ahead. No small task for the eros
Good afternoon. Well call this hearing to order. I thank everyone for coming. I want to welcome our guest with us to day, secretary of treasury mr. Mnuchin. Thank you for joining us. Today we look forward to discussing the departments budget request as well as some of the assumptions and policies inclu included in this year 2018. The president s budgets proposes cutting spending by 3. 6 trillion over the next ten years while making key investments to spur Economic Growth and job creation. I believe it is honest and impressive and includes major middle income and business tax cuts through tax reform allowing individuals and constituents all across the country to keep more of their paycheck for themselves. It also has a trillion dollar public and private plan for national infrastructure. It rescues families from a Failing Health care law. It build upon our spending cuts and further reduces the size of many federal agencies if not eliminating agencies altogether. The president rightly wan
You mean you will try to adhere to the rule but if youre not able to thats not a deal breaker for the white house . Again, the Administration First of all i want to be clear, i did not name it as a recall. Just a promts, right . No. I never made it as a promise. I made it as an objective. Our current proposal which lowers tax breaks is offset with a taggers deductions. Youll see what it looks like. I think its a widely shared objective. Thank you. I want to talk about provisions that passed the house last week. Im curious, do you support removing transparency from executive pay. Companies will no longer be allowed to disclose disparity between the ceos and employee average of those institutions. They wont en be required if executives are required to bet against their own companys stock prices. Are those really that costly . Overall i the support the choice act and what its trying to do. As it relates to executive pay, i have always viewed that boarding should be held accountable. Too m
With us today, secretary of treasury mr. Ma mnuchin, thank you for joining us. Today we look forward discussing the departments budget request as well as some of the assumptions and policies included in the president s overall request for this upcoming here of 2018. The president s budget proposes cutting spending by 3. 6 trillion over the next ten years while making key investigatements to spur Economic Growth and job creation. And weve all heard what the critics have said and there might abe few critics in here today, but mr. Secretary i am not one of them. I believe the president s budget is honest and impressive. It includes major middle income and business tax cuts through tax reform allowing allowing individuals and constituents all across the country to keep more of their paycheck for themselves. It also has a patrol ondollars public and private plan for national infrastructure. It rescues families from a failing healthcare law. It builds upon our spending cuts and further reduc
By his own admission, President Donald J. Trump is a brilliant businessman, a master negotiator, an exceptional deal maker, somebody who always wins. When it comes to China, he is prepared to do just that win. “I’ve read hundreds of books about China over the decades,” Trump wrote in his 1987 bestseller The Art of the Deal. “I know the Chinese. I’ve made a lot of money with