Trump Names Kevin Hassett Director of National Economic Council

President-elect Donald Trump announced on November 26, 2024, that Kevin Hassett would serve as director of the National Economic Council in his second administration. Hassett, a former chair of the Council of Economic Advisers under Trump's first term, is an economist and senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. He was a key architect of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act and is expected to lead coordination of the administration's trade, tax, and regulatory economic agenda.