Trump's Treasury pick targets taxes, trade reforms

WASHINGTON - US President-elect Donald Trump's pick for Treasury secretary, Steven Mnuchin, said on Wednesday the administration would target tax reform and trade pact overhauls as top priorities as they seek to achieve 3 percent to 4 percent economic growth.

Mnuchin and Wilbur Ross, Trump's nominee for commerce secretary, outlined their agenda, including what Mnuchin called the largest tax overhaul since the Ronald Reagan administration, in an interview on CNBC. Both men confirmed they had been tapped for the jobs.

"We think by cutting corporate taxes we'll create huge economic growth and we'll have huge personal income," Mnuchin said in the interview.

Mnuchin and Ross said lower tax rates would be offset by reductions in the number of income tax deductions. "Taxes are way too complicated and people spend way too much time worrying about ways to get them lower," Mnuchin said.