Those Inside Treasury News Today

Here. >> were running a lot of numbers. i think youve heard me talk about we believe in dynamic, not static scoring. thats something very important. we have over 100 people in the tax group in a modelling area and they are working around the clock on running scenarios for us. >> over 100 people in the tax group, the modelling area working around the clock. that was steven mnuchin. treasury secretary speaking with cnbc but this is the thing he says frequently over and over again. >> were working ...

It does feel like republican senators were actually expecting to get something from treasury and the treasury department, treasury secretary said this will be free and pay for itself. from your understanding of politics here, are there actually republicans in the senate who will care enough about adding a trillion or a trillion and a half dollars on the deficit it will help them vote no. >> there are a couple republicans putting a bit of a bump in this process, a roadblock tonight because they d...

What the numbers are here. it turns out when he says weve been working on this in the treasury department, nobody has been working on that in the treasury department. here is alan wrap pa port writing quote, in pitching the $1.5 trillion tax overhaul, steven mnuchin, the treasury secretary said repeatedly the plan will pay for itself and over 100 people in treasury are working around the clock on running scenarios for us, however, quote, those inside treasurys office of tax policy, which mr. mnu...

Secretary which is what that was about. clearly, he likes touching money. and then the handling money and looking at money part of his job and you cant fault him for that, i guess. for people who enjoy looking at, touching and frolicking among money, treasury is probably the ideal job in government but beyond just that, you know, stuff thats fun to do with your wife at work apparently, there are other things youre supposed to do as treasury secretary that are about money but they dont involve ju...