Open for business: Trump creating commerce-friendly White House

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Washington Times:

President-elect Donald Trump was already closing a deal to keep U.S. workers employed at the Carrier air conditioner plant in Indiana as he stacked his Cabinet with Wall Street titans Wednesday, creating the most business-friendly White House that America has seen in a long time.

 

Trump transition officials boasted that the Carrier deal was an early down payment on his campaign promises to restore manufacturing jobs and that his team — namely Treasury secretary nominee Steve Mnuchin and commerce secretary nominee Wilbur Ross — had the business savvy necessary to help kick the U.S. economy into overdrive.

 

Mr. Trump was assembling a “Cabinet of winners,” said Trump transition spokesman Jason Miller.

 

“The key theme with all the announcements today is bringing into the administration the framers of the president-elect’s economic populist message about how we make good deals for American workers [and] how we are going to improve the lives of American families,” he told reporters on a conference call.

The moves were in keeping with Mr. Trump’s agenda of cutting taxes, slashing regulations and making better trade deals in an effort to boost business, jobs and the economy.