16 February 2017 President Trump comments on timing for tax reform and health care reform, Senate confirms Mulvaney as OMB Director During a news conference to announce R. Alexander Acosta as his new nominee for Secretary of Labor, President Trump was asked about tax reform and said: "Tax reform is going to happen fairly quickly. We're doing Obamacare … frankly, the tax would be easier, in my opinion, but for statutory reasons and for budgetary reasons, we have to submit the healthcare sooner. So we'll be submitting healthcare sometime in early March, mid-March. And after that, we're going to come up, and we're doing very well on tax reform." Earlier, the Senate confirmed the nomination of Rep. Mick Mulvaney (R-SC) to be Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) by a vote of 51-49. Document ID: 2017-0333 |
