An elite group that, along with Mnuchin, includes
- President Trump
- education secretary Betsy DeVos
- commerce secreteary Wilbur Ross
- Secretary of State Rex Tillerson
- transportation secretary Elaine Chao (wife of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell)
- agriculture secretary Sonny Perdue
- housing secretary Ben Carson
- National Economic Council chief Gary Cohn
Mnuchin quoted in Only the Most Wealthy, Including Trump, Gin From Estate Tax's Repeal. (The New York Times, 11/16/2017)
Republicans want to shrink the numbers further. In the Senate’s proposed tax bill, exempted income would temporarily double to $11 million per person [up from $5.49 million] — $22 million [up from $11 million] for a couple — during the next decade. If those rules had been imposed last year, the number of estates owing money under the tax would have been no more than 2,204 — fewer than 0.1 percent of the total.
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