Steven Mnuchin: Jerusalem embassy move shows Trump is ‘taking action’

Published May 14, 2018 12:25pm ET



Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Monday that President Trump’s decision to move the U.S. Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem shows Trump is taking action in an area in which prior presidents did nothing.

“Other presidents said they’d do this and they didn’t,” Mnuchin told Fox News in Jerusalem Monday. “It’s been over 20 years since Congress passed the Jerusalem Embassy Act, and the president’s making good on it now.”

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