Jacob Lew
Jacob Lew
Jacob Joseph "Jack" Lewis an American government administrator and attorney who is the 76th and current United States Secretary of the Treasury, serving since February 28, 2013. He served as the 26th White House Chief of Staff from 2012 to 2013. Lew previously served as Director of the Office of Management and Budget in the Clinton and Obama Administrations, and is a member of the Democratic Party...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPublic Servant
Date of Birth29 August 1955
CountryUnited States of America
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There's a lot of trust being built up. I think we have a lot of work ahead of us.
The transition from tyranny to democracy is very hard. The Syrian people have to handle this in a way that works in Syria. And the brutality of the Assad regime is unacceptable.
There are lots of ways to work together.
I think the thing that the American people want is for the divisive debate on health care to stop.
We have to reduce the burden placed on our economy by years of deficits and debt.
I think it's very important not to confuse the importance of dealing with Social Security in the long term with these short-term deficit reduction challenges. They're different issues.
It's going to be true that anything that reduces the federal deficit will have somebody unhappy.
Social Security is something that we need to deal with, because people who are working today, who will retire in the future, people who are retired today, they have a right - and it's part of the compact that they can depend on their benefits. We should fix the long-term funding problem of Social Security because that's the right thing to do.
We cannot win the future, expand the economy and spur job creation if we are saddled with increasingly growing deficits. That is why the president's budget is a comprehensive and responsible plan that will put us on a path toward fiscal sustainability in the next few years - a down payment toward tackling our challenges in the long term.
It is time for the general fund to pay the Social Security fund back.
The budget is not just a collection of numbers, but an expression of our values and aspirations.
I've never seen a constructive Social Security debate that started with one side digging in, in one place and another side digging into another.
We obviously would like to get unemployment as low as we possibly can.