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alism, and that is Wilbur Ross at Commerce, Steve Mnuchin at Treasury, [Robert] Lighthizer at Trade, Peter

ence, defense department, homeland security. The second line of work is what I refer to as economic nationalism, and that is Wilbur Ross at Commerce, Steve Mnuchin at Treasury, [Robert] Lighthizer at Trade, Peter Navarro, [and] Stephen Miller, who are rethinking how we are going to reconstruct our trade arrangem

article by three authors—Evan Osnos, David Remnick, and Joshua Yaffa HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019998 —attributing Russian aggressiveness to a new cold war. Remnick, the editor of the New Yorker, had, since the Trump election, propounded an absolutist view that Trump’s election imperiled Democratic norms. This 1

lating news conference, all eyes were suddenly on Kelly—this was his baptism of Trump fire. Spicer, Priebus, Cohn, Powell, Bannon, Tillerson, Mattis, Mnuchin—virtually the entire senior staff and cabinet of the Trump presidency, past and present, had traveled through the stages of adventure, challenge, fru

dent if not serene in his unquestioned certitudes. There was now a fair amount of back-of-the-classroom giggling about who had called Trump what. For Steve Mnuchin and Reince Priebus, he was an “idiot.” For Gary Cohn, he was “dumb as shit.” For H. R. McMaster he was a “dope.” The list went on. Tillerson would m

mir, 7, 8, 24, 37-38, 99-102, 153, 155 Qatar, 230-31 Raffel, Josh, 142, 207, 258-59, 279 Reagan, Ronald, 26, 27, 34, 58, 90, 126—27, 144, 201, 222 Remnick, David, 154 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_020133 Renaissance Technologies, 58 Republican National Committee (RNC), 10-11, 13, 26, 28, 30, 32-33, 52, 112, 119, 17

ently that Obama's distance from members of Congress has hurt his ability to pass legislation. "When you don't build those personal relationships," Manchin told CNN, "it's pretty easy for a person to say, `Well, let me think about it.' " Harry Truman once called the White House "the great white jail,"

urrection," and "Lenin's Tomb," for which he received both the Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction and a George Polk Award for excellence in journalism. Remnick's most recent book, "The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama," was published by Knopf Doubleday in April 2010. EFTA00684503