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Over the past month, President-elect Donald Trump has made
several selections for key administration posts. Notably,
President-elect Trump said he would nominate Steven Mnuchin to
serve as Treasury Secretary. Mnuchin was the Trump campaign's
national finance chair. He is also a former Goldman Sachs Partner
and led the investor group that acquired the failed IndyMac Bank
from the FDIC and operated it as OneWest Bank. While serving as
campaign finance chair, Mnuchin outlined some of the economic
priorities of the Trump administration: in August he said that a
Trump administration would be "focused on lowering business
taxes, making sure that US corporations are competitive around the
world, bringing back cash from all around the world that's
sitting offshore." President-elect Trump has also chosen
Wilbur Ross as Commerce Secretary, a businessman who has not held
any previous public office.
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