National Economic Council director Gary Cohn said Thursday he plans to stick around the White House until a tax reform bill has been signed, declining to confirm whether he will remain in his post beyond that.
Cohn, who publicly criticized Trump’s handling last month of a violent white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, told reporters his primary goal is to see tax reform through.
“Why am I here? I am here just for this reason,” Cohn said at a briefing on the adminstration’s newly revealed tax plan.
The former Goldman Sachs president cast “the ability to rewrite the tax code” as a “once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.”
He later added that there are “many more once-in-a-lifetime opportunities in the White House,” when asked if he will stay on as NEC director if Congress passes a tax package by the end of the year, as planned.
Cohn and Trump have spent the past 24 hours pitching their tax reform plan as one that could stimulate a “middle class miracle” if swiftly enacted.
