Trump leaves out Cohn as he delivers shout-outs at tax reform speech

President Donald Trump delivered an extensive round of shout-outs at the top of his major speech on tax reform on Wednesday — but left out Gary Cohn, his top economic adviser.

Trump name-checked a dozen Cabinet members, state officials and lawmakers at the beginning of his remarks in Springfield, Missouri. He twice mentioned his daughter, senior adviser Ivanka Trump, but snubbed Cohn, his national economic director who has been leading the tax reform effort along with Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin.

Cohn traveled with the president to Missouri, but it is unclear whether Cohn was inside the Loren Cook Company building as Trump spoke.

It’s also not clear why Trump avoided a direct mention of Cohn, a potential candidate to replace Janet Yellen as chair of the Federal Reserve. Cohn, however, did criticize Trump last week during an interview for the president's response to the deadly violence at a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, earlier this month.

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