Gary Cohn, Trump’s top economic adviser, to resign amid differences on trade policy
2018-03-07 09:59:02 source：The Washington Post
March 6, 2018
Gary Cohn, the White House’s top economic adviser, announced Tuesday he was leaving the administration amid a major internal clash over President Trump’s sharp and sudden pivot toward protectionist trade policies.
The departure of Cohn, the former president of Goldman Sachs who had been an interlocutor between the Trump administration and the business community, is the latest jolt to a White House that has been especially tumultuous in recent weeks and unable to retain some of its top talent.
His resignation as National Economic Council director leaves the White House without a financial heavyweight that business executives and foreign leaders believed had served as a counter to Trump’s protectionist impulses and as a moderating force in other areas.
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