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President Trump is expected to unveil a massive “package of tariffs” against China in the coming weeks, multiple sources close to the White House told Politico.

Larry Kudlow is in the lead to win the top job as the top White House economics adviser, Donald Trump indicated Tuesday.

Kudlow spent the 2016 campaign and much of the first year of Trump’s presidency as an informal economic adviser. Now he may get the job for real.

Monday on CNBC’s “Squawk Alley,” network host and contributor Jim Cramer said his former “Kudlow & Cramer” co-host and current CNBC colleague Larry Kudlow was the leading candidate to replace outgoing White House chief economic advisor Gary Cohn. “I have

Climate alarmists are expressing great concern about the departure of National Economic Council Director Gary Cohn from the White House.

Democratic U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) is thrilled that President Donald Trump is moving forward with tariffs of 25 percent on steel and ten percent on aluminum imports into the United States, he told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview on Thursday.

“He’s been terrific. He may be a globalist, but I still like him,” Trump said. “He’s seriously globalist, no question, but he’s also a nationalist because he loves our country.”

Former Vice President Joe Biden said on Tuesday that he is “angry” that some leading Democrats just “don’t get it” when it comes to understanding the dignity of work and the concerns of working-class Americans.

As White House economic adviser Gary Cohn resigns from the White House, Breitbart News looks back on six times that the economic globalist attempted to derail President Trump’s “America First” agenda.

The “Trumpocrats,” the group of working and middle-class Democrat voters who supported President Trump in the 2016 presidential election, have won a victory, as their nemesis in the White House, Gary Cohn has resigned.

On Tuesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Situation Room,” CNN Chief Legal Analyst and New Yorker Staff Writer Jeffrey Toobin reacted to the departure of Trump economic adviser Gary Cohn by stating Cohn “managed to stomach the racism, what he couldn’t take

“Gary has been my chief economic adviser and did a superb job in driving our agenda, helping to deliver historic tax cuts and reforms and unleashing the American economy once again,” Trump said in a statement. “He is a rare talent, and I thank him for his dedicated service to the American people.”

“It’s Peter Navarro, Wilbur Ross, and President Trump against the world,” a source with close ties to the White House told Breitbart News.

Cohn is attempting to organize a “summit” of business leaders opposed to the tariffs, according to a person familiar with the matter.

“The new Fake News narrative is that there is CHAOS in the White House. Wrong!” President Trump wrote. “People will always come & go, and I want strong dialogue before making a final decision. I still have some people that I want to change (always seeking perfection).”

White House trade adviser Peter Navarro challenged establishment forces and lobbyists for raising alarms about a “trade war” in response to President Donald Trump’s proposed tariffs.

President Trump called his economic adviser Gary Cohn a “globalist” on the issue of trade in a White House fight over tariffs.

Washington is buzzing over President Donald Trump’s inner circle, with several reports sparking rumors of departures, dissatisfaction, frustration, and failure in the West Wing.

The trade globalist wing of the White House has failed in its efforts to stop President Trump from following through on his promise to protect American industries and jobs by imposing tariffs on imported foreign products.

President Donald Trump has started to make the American economy great again with tough trade policies. Yet, Gary Cohn, the president’s chief economist has obstructed that agenda at every opportunity.

White House deputy communications director Josh Rafel is leaving the White House, according to Axios reporter Jonathan Swan.

Donald Trump is headed to the world’s top globalist gathering in Davos, Switzerland to tout his economic accomplishments and encourage investment in the United States, White House officials said Tuesday.

President Donald Trump plans to bring an enormous group of administration officials with him to the Davos World Economic Summit in January.

“Gary, hopefully, will be staying for a long time,” Trump said when reporters asked if Cohn would stay.

Gary Cohn told CNBC that he will stick around for at least next week, quashing rumors that he might leave the White House soon.

White House National Economic Council Director Gary Cohn described China as an “important ally” of the United States in an interview with Mike Allen of Axios on Wednesday — just days after President Donald Trump’s National Security Strategy described China as an adversarial “revisionist power” that steals hundreds of billions of dollars in U.S. intellectual property each year and is working to “shape a world antithetical to U.S. values and interests.”

“I’m staying,” Gary Cohn said shortly in an interview with Axios reporter Mike Allen, after celebrating the successful push for tax reform.

On Wednesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Wolf,” Senator Chris Coons (D-DE) reacted to fellow Senator Tom Carper’s (D-DE) claim that White House Chief Economic Adviser Gary Cohn faked a bad phone connection to get the president off the phone in a

President Donald Trump is leaning toward appointing both Standford University economist John Taylor and former investment Jerome “Jay” Powell to top positions at the Federal Reserve, according to people familiar with the president’s thinking.

Although Republicans in the nation’s capital claim they want to cut taxes for the middle-class, top GOP officials keep coming up with ways to hike taxes that would fall hardest on middle-income Americans.

Republicans might add a new tax bracket for those who earn more than $1 million to pay for tax cuts for middle-class families.

President Trump is to take his first step towards scrapping President Obama’s “stupid” and “job killing” Clean Power Plan, an aghast New York Times reports.

No matter what the GOP tax plan does, the opposition media will describe it as a tax cut for the rich.

Dreams of bipartisan support for tax cuts were immediately dashed as Democrats declared war on GOP tax proposal.

President Donald Trump will likely find it harder to put in place trade policies designed to protect American jobs and technology thanks to chief of staff John Kelly’s latest maneuver.

Making lifelong Democrat Gary Cohn the White House lead on tax reform was always a risky strategy. Democrats were unlikely to cooperate with the administration on anything and Republican lawmakers instinctively distrusted Cohn’s motives and positions.

White House National Economic Adviser Gary Cohn hosted a breakfast near the U.N. Monday on energy and climate change, during which he reiterated the administration’s stance that the U.S. will leave the Paris climate accord unless more favorable terms are negotiated.

After President Trump sent shivers down the spines of his supporters this week by showing his willingness to cut a deal with Democrat leadership to allow Obama’s DACA policies to remain in place, he now appears to be backtracking on

Gary Cohn, chief economic advisor to President Trump, is to host a meeting in New York with the world’s leading climate and energy ministers.

President Donald Trump hosted a dinner with six senators on Tuesday night, including three moderate Democrats.

President Donald Trump’s economic adviser Gary Cohn appears keen on working with the world about climate change, setting up a meeting next week at the United Nations to discuss the issue.

The fate of Gary Cohn is a big topic at New York’s biggest Wall Street conference Tuesday. That’s hardly surprising.

Gary Cohn may not be Donald Trump’s chief economic adviser for much longer. Trump “hates him,” a White House source tells Reuters.

Former White House strategist Stephen K. Bannon challenged his former colleagues in the White House for signaling opposition to President Donald Trump’s response to the protests in Charlottesville, saying that they should have resigned if they didn’t agree with the president.

Gary Cohn is out of the running for the top job at the Federal Reserve.