People are going to want to say the deficit is because of the tax cuts. That's not the real story, the real story is we made a significant investment in the military which is very, very important, and to get that done we had to increase non-military spending.

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Today the Treasury Department is targeting the unelected officials who surround Irans Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, and implement his destabilizing policies, these individuals are linked to a wide range of malign behaviors by the regime, including bombings of the U.S. Marine Barracks in Beirut in 1983 and the Argentine Israelite Mutual Association in 1994, as well as torture, extrajudicial killingsand repression of civilians.

She is a fierce advocate for effectively leveraging our powerful economic tools to make an impact for a safer world.

Venezuela's oil... should not be used as a bargaining tool to prop up dictators and prolong the usurpation of Venezuelan democracy.

We didn't want there to be any confusion, they have started buying agriculture. They are going to reschedule that at a different time. The timing didn't work. But that was, that was purely at our request.

That was actually at our request they delayed that. by Steven Mnuchin

That was actually at our request they delayed that.

Unlike his competition, the President wants to grow the economy and make sure that we have tax cuts for the middle class and that they benefit.

We're looking at that, I'm not going to make any comments on any specific decisions, but we are looking at it.

They have been in conservatorship too long and we want to make sure they're not in conservatorship on a permanent basis, so our first choice is to work with Congress on a bipartisan basis, but if we can't do that we're perfectly comfortable moving for it on the administrative side.

I want to be clear, the President -- when we saw how this was being reported, the White House put out a statement to make very clear.

If you look at Amazon, although they're certain benefits to it, they've destroyed the retail industry across the United States, i don't have an opinion other than I think it's absolutely right the attorney general is looking into these issues and I look forward to listening to his recommendations to the president.

The president did look into that as well as I, google is an American company who wants to help the U.S.

We have actually now agreed on the spending numbers for both years, we're now working on offsets and certain structural issues and as part of this, we've agreed that there would be a long-term debt ceiling extension.

We will not allow digital asset service providers to operate in t... by Steven Mnuchin

We will not allow digital asset service providers to operate in the shadows.

I think the President clarified his comment. I understand what the President's comment is. I'm not concerned about the President's comment, that's the last comment I'm going to make on this issue.

We were about 90 % of the way there and I think there's a path to... by Steven Mnuchin

We were about 90 % of the way there and I think there's a path to complete this.

We now have an agreement that we believe is going to fix the immigration issue. And that was extremely important to the president.

This is not a negotiating meeting. by Steven Mnuchin

This is not a negotiating meeting.

If we can get the right agreement, that's great. If we can't get the right agreement, we will proceed with tariffs.

We are unable to provide the requested information. by Steven Mnuchin

We are unable to provide the requested information.

We are unable to provide the requested information in response to... by Steven Mnuchin

We are unable to provide the requested information in response to the committee's subpoena.