Trump Picks Miran to Head His Council of Economic Advisers (1)

President-elect Donald Trump is nominating Stephen Miran to lead his Council of Economic Advisers, enlisting a former Treasury official who served in Washington during his first administration.

“Steve will work with the rest of my economic team to deliver a great economic boom that lifts up all Americans,” Trump said in a statement Sunday on his Truth Social platform.

As the top White House economist, Miran is set to advise Trump on policy and be a prominent face for selling those decisions to the public. Miran, whose post requires Senate confirmation, was a senior economic policy adviser at the ...