Donald Trump announced an economic policy advisory council on Friday drawn heavily from real estate and finance executives, ahead of what the Trump campaign is billing as a major address on the economy on Monday in Detroit.
Absent from the list of advisers released Friday are Republican policy hands that have guided past GOP nominees or worked in the White House in a Republican administration, the latest reflection of how Trump’s insurgent campaign represents a stark break with the party’s policy establishment. All of the advisers announced on Friday are men.
Trump’s policy team is being led by Stephen Miller, a former aide to Sen. Jeff Sessions (R., Ala.), who joined the campaign in January, and Dan Kowalski, who previously served on Republican budget committee staffs in the Senate and House.
The team includes a coterie of real-estate executives: Howard Lorber, chairman of real estate brokerage Douglas Elliman; Steve Roth, head of Vornado Realty Trust, one of the nation’s largest commercial real-estate companies; and Andrew Beal, a Texas banking tycoon who got his start as a real-estate investor.
[Source:- Market watch]
