{"id":3241,"date":"2024-12-04T19:32:29","date_gmt":"2024-12-04T19:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-taps-former-mnuchin-aide-faulkender-for-no-2-treasury-job\/"},"modified":"2024-12-04T19:32:29","modified_gmt":"2024-12-04T19:32:29","slug":"trump-taps-former-mnuchin-aide-faulkender-for-no-2-treasury-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-taps-former-mnuchin-aide-faulkender-for-no-2-treasury-job\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump taps former Mnuchin aide Faulkender for No. 2 Treasury job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President-elect Donald Trump announced Wednesday his selection of finance professor Michael Faulkender to be deputy Treasury secretary, where he will play a key role in running the department. Faulkender, who served as chief economist for Treasury during Trump&rsquo;s first term, now teaches at the University of Maryland&rsquo;s business school and also serves as chief economist at the Trump-aligned America First Policy Institute&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2024\/12\/04\/congress\/trump-taps-faulkender-for-no-2-treasury-job-00192596\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President-elect Donald Trump announced Wednesday his selection of finance professor Michael Faulkender to be deputy Treasury secretary, where he will play a key role in running the department. Faulkender, who served as chief economist for Treasury during Trump&rsquo;s first term, now teaches at the University of Maryland&rsquo;s business school and also serves as chief economist [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}