Donald J. Trump is interviewed by John Paulson at the Economic Club of New York. Mr. Paulson is perhaps the most traditional Republican voice in the president-elect’s circle. 

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Earlier, Trump had announced that if he is elected the President of the US, he will create a government efficiency commission – an idea that was pushed by Musk – adding that the Tesla CEO will be its chief. “We need to do it. Can't go on the way we are now,” Trump said in a speech to the Economic Club of New York, a group of executives and industry leaders, in September.

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“My plan will terminate the Green New Deal, which I call the Green New Scam,” Mr. Trump said in a speech to the Economic Club of New York in September, referring to Mr. Biden’s climate policies. “We will rescind all unspent funds under the misnamed Inflation Reduction Act.”

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"To further defeat inflation, my plan will terminate the Green New Deal, which I call the Green New Scam. Greatest scam in history, probably," Trump said during remarks at the Economic Club of New York in September. "[We will] rescind all unspent funds under the misnamed Inflation Reduction Act."

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Jamie Dimon, Chairman and Chief Executive officer (CEO) of JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) speaks to the Economic Club of New York in Manhattan in New York City.

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"My plan will rapidly defeat inflation, quickly bring down prices, and reignite explosive economic growth,” Mr. Trump said during a speech at the Economic Club of New York this year.

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Trump, by contrast, has vowed to open up vast areas of federal land for large-scale housing construction, telling The Economic Club of New York that “these zones will be ultra-low tax and ultra-low regulations — one of the great small business job creation programs.”

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The platform didn't specify which regulations Trump would cut, but he said during a speech at the Economic Club of New York in September that "regulation costs 30% of a new home, and we will open up portions of federal land for large-scale housing construction."

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It paid for those credits by increasing tax collections via beefed-up Internal Revenue Service enforcement and a minimum tax on large corporations. Trump said at the Economic Club of New York in September he would “rescind all unspent funds under the misnamed Inflation Reduction Act.” His campaign hasn’t been specific about what that would mean.

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Jamie Dimon, Chairman and Chief Executive officer (CEO) of JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) speaks to the Economic Club of New York in Manhattan in New York City.

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Americans “cannot ignore the impact that the flood of 21 million illegal aliens has had on driving up housing costs,” Trump argued at the Economic Club of New York’s luncheon in September. Vance has made this argument even more fervently—on X, in recent interviews, and in other venues.

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"Instead of attacking industries of the future, we will embrace them, including making America the world capital for crypto and bitcoin," Trump said during a speech at the Economic Club of New York in September.

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“We’re going down and getting gasoline below $2 a gallon,” Trump said at the Economic Club of New York last month, pledging to “bring down the price of everything from electricity rates to groceries, airfares and housing costs.”

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Trump is pledging to cut Americans’ energy costs in half within a year of taking office, a key part of his plan to reduce inflation. “Energy was what caused our problem initially,” he told an audience at the Economic Club of New York in September. “Energy is going to bring us back.”

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Indian Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman speaks to the Economic Club of New York. India will retain investment curbs on bordering nations, the finance minister said, days after it struck a pact with China on patrols along their disputed Himalayan frontier, with the leaders of both countries expected to meet on Wednesday.

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“The biggest challenge that we had is the employability level or the skill set which is so required,” Sitharaman said at an event hosted by The Economic Club of New York on Monday. Businesses often feel that graduate students don’t have the appropriate skills for the job at hand, she said.

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Union Minister of Finance and Corporate Affairs Nirmala Sitharaman with IBM Chairman and CEO Arvind Krishna during a programme at the Economic Club of New York.

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One other moment stood out to me: the single mom who asked about child care. Trump has now been asked three key times about child care: first at the infamous CNN debate with Biden, second at his appearance at the Economic Club of New York and now in Wednesday’s town hall. All three times he gave a non-answer.

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Weeks later, during a speech at the Economic Club of New York, Trump formally announced his support for a “government-efficiency commission” that would “conduct a complete financial and performance audit of the entire federal government.”

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Former President Donald Trump spoke to the Economic Club of New York in September, and he spoke to this idea of reducing regulations and opening federal land for large-scale construction. Can he do that easily at least?

AW : You then have to ask yourself, “Where is that federal land? Where is that relative to an employment center? Where is that relative to where people want to live? And how is the land-use regulation for that?” So you could open up the land, but then you still have to have the city decide what is the best use of this land. It’s a very good idea in theory. But once you run through the practical abilities of all of this, I’m not sure it’s really going to be the game changer we would hope it to be.

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