The timing of the friction doesn't bode well for the administration's tax reform efforts, but it is also sheltering Cohn from the President's ire. "Do you know how important he is to tax reform?" "He's been a significant player on tax reform and infrastructure, and now on hurricane relief." Cohn is widely viewed as a crucial piece of the administration's efforts on Capitol Hill; and two sources familiar with those discussions said the administration's efforts to pass tax reform would suffer if Cohn were pushed out. Even as he prepared to leave for Springfield, Missouri, to make his opening pitch to the public on tax reform, Trump grumbled privately about Cohn, making clear he was still annoyed with his top economic adviser's criticism of his Charlottesville response.

Source: CNN August 31, 2017 19:21 UTC