“You can’t cut your way to prosperity. You have to grow your way, and we’ve grown revenues now.”:
Steven Mnuchin, a former investment banker and hedge fund manager, began his career at Goldman Sachs after graduating from Yale. He was President Trump’s national finance chairman, and as Treasury secretary has been a strong advocate for tax reform. Andrew Ross Sorkin, DealBook editor and columnist for The New York Times, interviewed Mr. Mnuchin at the Times’s first DealBook/DC Strategy Forum. The following excerpts have been edited and condensed.