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An unlikely salesman for the Republican Party’s tax plan

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin briefs reporters during the U.N. General Assembly

LIKE A NOVICE WAITER FACING unruly diners, Steven Mnuchin has spent the past six months trying to entice Washington with what should be an appetizing offering: tax reform. Huddled in closed-door sessions in ornate conference rooms across the capital, the Treasury Secretary has offered options, and taken orders, in a chaotic search for consensus on the Republican Party’s long-sought legislative agenda item. But on Sept. 27, when Mnuchin and congressional Republicans

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